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Intro: THE government continues to make significant progress in its efforts to provide legislation necessary to govern the control of tobacco smoking in public places.
This was the word coming from Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Martin Cox, as he spoke at the Science of Peace Lecture hosted by the University of the West Indies and the InterAmerican Heart Foundation at the Sherbourne Conference Centre recently.
He noted government was committed to tobacco control, as shown by its increase in taxes on such products by 100 per cent and the removal of duty-free concessions on these products at all ports of entry.
Delivering the lecture, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Director Emeritus of PAHO/WHO, Sir George Alleyne, stated Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCDs) were "assuming ever greater significance in our part of the world and the efforts to prevent and treat them constitutes one of the major development challenges of this century."
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