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World Health Organization
The tobacco epidemic is preventable. Hundreds of millions of people do not have to die this century from tobacco-related illness – but only if the leaders of governments and civil society take urgent action now.
WHO has introduced the MPOWER package of six proven policies:

Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies,
Protect people from tobacco […]

HK-magazine.com - December 26th, 2008

In six months, the government will lay down the final piece in its smoking-ban puzzle. The staggered anti-smoking legislation—first all indoor workplaces and eateries in January 2007, all bars and nightclubs in July 2009—has caused nothing but confusion and chaos since its passing in 2006. And now comes another problem: do […]

Associated Press By MICHAEL CASEY – Dec 23, 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Two of the world’s largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies in Thailand and China by infiltrating one research institute and funding another, researchers said Tuesday.
The allegations — highlighted in two separate studies — come as […]

BMJ - Published 11 December 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2806
George Thomson, senior research fellow1, Nick Wilson, senior lecturer1, Richard Edwards, associate professor1, Alistair Woodward, professor2
1 University of Otago, Wellington, Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand, 2 University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand - Correspondence to: G Thompson george.thomson@otago.ac.nz
After success in stopping smoking in public buildings, […]

Adele Wong, The Standard - Tuesday, December 09, 2008
An anti-smoking activist has called on the government to drastically increase tax on cigarettes since they cost less in real terms today than seven years ago when the tax was last raised.
Professor Judith Mackay, director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control and senior policy adviser to […]

Ella Lee in Beijing - SCMP | Updated on Oct 24, 2008
The burden of non-communicable diseases was getting heavier for the mainland, as they now took up almost two-thirds of national health-care expenditure and cause 80 per cent of all deaths in the country, senior health officials said yesterday.
Vice-Minister of Health Yin Li said that […]

SCMP - Updated on Oct 15, 2008
Imperfect laws always end up causing havoc (”Bars win in smoking-ban case”, October 9).
Instead of a simple smoking ban, as successfully implemented in restaurants in 2007, some Legco members pushed for extensions and exemptions in the indoor areas of bars open to those aged 18 and above, mahjong parlours […]

Al Jazeera and agencies | 5 October 2008
Tens of millions of Chinese will die of lung diseases over the next 25 years unless the government takes action to combat smoking and the indoor burning of fuel, scientists have warned.
The study*, published on Saturday in the British journal, The Lancet, said chronic respiratory illness would kill […]

Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman - The Sydney Morning Herald | October 3, 2008
This month in Rio de Janeiro, the global tobacco industry’s annual conference features a special session on what many are seeing as its Armageddon: plain, generic packaging. All packs are identical except for the brand name, printed […]

Patrick Horan with wires - Herald Sun - AFP, Reuters | September 26, 2008
AN English pub reckons it has the perfect solution to the smoking ban as their winter approaches – an electronic cigarette.
The UK Telegraph reports that the Butler’s Arms near Birmingham is selling the new E.cig, a device that smokes like a real […]