Jump to full article: Xinhua Newswire, 2008-10-29
Intro: Myanmar has reiterated ban on advertisements of cigarette and liquor, warning that such advertisement billboards erected in the Yangon municipal area, will be removed if found, the local Myanmar Newsweek reported Wednesday.
Quoting Yangon Mayor Brigadier-General Aung Thein Lin, the report said the ban aims at preventing immature youths from being absorbed in smoking and drinking, and from leading a wrong path of life.
Myanmar has prohibited smoking in university campuses in the country since December 2006 in an effort to create tobacco-smoke-free environment for the health of the university students. . . .
Meanwhile, the Myanmar health authorities have stressed the need to expand the country's anti-tobacco campaign to rural areas where smokers, especially women, are high in number.
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Myanmar has been committed to controlling tobacco consumption by ratifying the International Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It became a signatory to the convention in September 2003and was the 11th out of 192 countries to ratify the convention.
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