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Jump to full article: Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (bb), 2007-09-17
Intro: Caribbean governments say they will increase taxes on tobacco and alcohol to cut the cost on their health budgets to treat diseases triggered by those products.
They also agreed at to limit or eliminate smoking in public places, ban the sale, advertising and promotion of tobacco products to children and insist on manufacturers putting effective warning labels on their products.
It's just one of the commitments given by regional leaders who attended the first Summit on Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases which took place in Trinidad on Saturday September 15th.
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