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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2009-03-11
Author: Yasmin Boland
Intro: Asian countries need to do more to outlaw tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, as cigarette firms look to the region for lucrative new markets, health professionals were told Tuesday.
Some 60 percent of the world's population and about 65 percent of young people live in Asia, making it a money-spinning area for tobacco companies who have seen demand fall in developed countries.
Yet despite most countries in the region having ratified a World Health Organisation convention on tobacco control, enforcement of advertising bans is patchy, allowing loopholes to be exploited, a conference here heard.
Doctor Pankaj Chaturvedi, a Mumbai-based cancer surgeon and member of the Action Council Against Tobacco (ACT) India lobby group, welcomed steps to ban smoking in public places and to outlaw direct advertising by tobacco firms.
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