Jump to full article: Sky News (au), 2009-04-26
Intro: The most frequently ignored phrase in Indonesia must surely be 'Dilarang Merokok' - No Smoking.
In restaurants, cinemas, hotels and shopping malls, No Smoking signs can often be spotted behind a haze of cigarette smoke.
Indonesians really love their durries - they smoke an estimated 220 billion of the things a year.
A staggering 63 per cent of Indonesia's men are smokers, and women and children are taking up the habit at a remarkable rate, according to anti-tobacco campaigners.
The average Indonesian household spends around 11 per cent of its income on cigarettes - that's second only to rice, and well ahead of fruit and vegetables, meat, education and housing. . . .
Indonesia has done pretty much nothing.
It is one of a handful of countries that refuse to sign up to the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005. . . .
Meanwhile, at least 200,000 Indonesians are dying every year from smoking-related illnesses, anti-tobacco campaigners say.
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