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Stop promoting smoking, entertainers told 

THE Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday issued a strong call for the local film, fashion and entertainment industry to stop advertising tobacco-related products and promoting smoking in their activities.

"We are calling on the fashion and film industry to stop promoting smoking in the movies and so on. Our statistics show that over one million people die from tobacco-smoking yearly," said Maria Rankine, who was speaking on behalf of Dr Manuel Pena, the PAHO/World Health Organisation representative in the Caribbean.

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