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	<title>Clear The Air Tobacco Blog</title>
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	<description>Tobacco: Your Health, Facts and Legislation</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>‘‘Efforts to Reprioritise the Agenda’’ in China: British American Tobacco’s Efforts to Influence Public Policy on Secondhand Smoke in China</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/30/%e2%80%98%e2%80%98efforts-to-reprioritise-the-agenda%e2%80%99%e2%80%99-in-china-british-american-tobacco%e2%80%99s-efforts-to-influence-public-policy-on-secondhand-smoke-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PLoS MEDICINE
A B S T R A C T
Background
Each year, 540 million Chinese are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS), resulting in more than 100,000 deaths. Smoke-free policies have been demonstrated to decrease overall cigarette consumption, encourage smokers to quit, and protect the health of nonsmokers. However, restrictions on smoking in China remain limited and ineffective. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO &#124; MPOWER: Six Policies To Reverse The Tobacco Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/29/who-mpower-six-policies-to-reverse-the-tobacco-epidemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Smoking Rooms Be Allowed?</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/29/should-smoking-rooms-be-allowed-2/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/29/should-smoking-rooms-be-allowed-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legislative Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Passive Smoking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Restaurants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Smoking Ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SCMP - Dec 29, 2008
Everyone knows smoking is bad for our health, but smokers talk about their rights and argue they should be free to smoke. However, the health of non-smokers should not be put at risk for smokers&#8217; convenience.
One of the reasons for the ban is to reduce people&#8217;s exposure to second-hand smoke and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should The Full Smoking Ban Be Delayed?</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/29/should-the-full-smoking-ban-be-delayed-5/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/29/should-the-full-smoking-ban-be-delayed-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SCMP - Dec 29, 2008
As a non-smoker, I am getting fed up with Anthony Hedley, Judith Mackay, Annelise Connell and the Clear The Air lobby. I have worked in the bar and restaurant business for 25 years, I am not an owner and my lungs and chest are clear.
I am not saying that this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Full Smoking Ban</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/28/start-full-smoking-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/28/start-full-smoking-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Quit Smoking]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SCMP - Dec 28, 2008
I am against any delays to the full smoking ban, because the partial ban has not been effective.
I do not believe bar owners will suffer from the ban. Where food is served, the smoke-free environment will attract more diners and even smokers will be willing to refrain from lighting up. Therefore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should The Full Ban On Smoking Be Delayed?</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/27/should-the-full-ban-on-smoking-be-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/27/should-the-full-ban-on-smoking-be-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SCMP - Updated on Dec 27, 2008
I refer to the letter by Deepak Nagrani (Talkback, December 22).
He claims that people are smoking more because of all the restrictions imposed by the government. Judging by official statistics and from my own observations, I would have to disagree.
In fact, I know many people who are smoking less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Smoking Rooms Be Allowed?</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/27/should-smoking-rooms-be-allowed/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/27/should-smoking-rooms-be-allowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SCMP - Updated on Dec 27, 2008
I do not support the idea of setting up smoking rooms.
For those who think we should be slightly lenient to smokers in Hong Kong, please take a look at our &#8220;new&#8221; eating environment.
It is now so common to see people eat and hold cigarettes outside cha chaan tengs [tea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up In Smoke</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/26/up-in-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/26/up-in-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Man Detained For 3 Days For Smoking On Train</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/25/chinese-man-detained-for-3-days-for-smoking-on-train/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/25/chinese-man-detained-for-3-days-for-smoking-on-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Smoking Ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News, Posted Thu Dec 25, 2008
A man has been given three days in detention for breaking a non-smoking rule on a new high-speed rail line, Chinese state media say, an unusually severe punishment in a country where smoking bans are routinely ignored.
He was caught smoking in the toilet just after the train had left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Firm Used Scientist To Subvert Critics In Asia</title>
		<link>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/24/tobacco-firm-used-scientist-to-subvert-critics-in-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/2008/12/24/tobacco-firm-used-scientist-to-subvert-critics-in-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthur.cheung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scotsman By MICHAEL CASEY - Published Date: 24 December 2008
AN EDINBURGH University study released yesterday has revealed the tactics used by tobacco companies to &#8220;infiltrate&#8221; scientific institutes and undermine anti-smoking policies in Asia.
On the website of the Public Library of Science Medicine journal, researcher Jeff Colin at Edinburgh University, along with Ross MacKenzie, another [...]]]></description>
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