http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/cambodia.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200806/s2283378.htm http://tobacco.org/news/267474.html A Cambodian NGO has been honoured by the World Health Organisation for its work on tobacco control. But the WHO also wants Cambodia to honour an obligation to outlaw cigarette ads by 2010. Presenter: Chhieng Yuth Australian Broadcasting Corporation Cambodia Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200805/s2238168.htm?tab=asia http://tobacco.org/news/264967.html An alliance of non-government organisations called the Cambodia Movement for Health are urging the parliament to speed up passage of draft anti-tobacco legislation. The Mekong Times reports the group is also stressing that stronger tobacco laws won't harm the economy. Australian Broadcasting Corporation Cambodia Wed, 07 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEMHGv.Cg2JQ http://tobacco.org/news/258216.html Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Canadian unit and a former tobacco executive will conclude a hearing tomorrow urging a judge to overturn an order requiring them to stand trial. The company is facing charges it helped defraud the Canadian government of about C$1 billion ($1 billion) in the 1990s by avoiding taxes through cigarette-smuggling operations into the U.S. The Canadian government has asked Ontario Superior Court Judge Ian Nordheimer at the same hearing to overturn the part of the May 30 ruling and order six other tobacco executives to stand trial. The case is Regina v. JTI-MacDonald Inc., Ontario Provincial Court (Toronto). Bloomberg News eamon2@bloomberg.net (Elizabeth Amon) Cambodia Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=NEWS_VIEW_POPUP_TYPE&newsId=20071207005525&ndmHsc=v2*A1195304400000*B1197947070000*DgroupByDate*J2*L1*N1000837*Zhoneys&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view_popup http://tobacco.org/news/256767.html General Cigar announces today that it has acquired certain assets of Havana Honeys Holdings LLC, a privately-held company that manufactures and markets flavored cigars under the Havana Honeys® brand. Included among the acquired assets are the Havana Honeys trademark as well as inventory and related assets to support the premium cigar segment of Havana Honeys. Terms of the purchase have not been disclosed. Business Wire vmckee@gcigar.com Cambodia Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=32040 http://tobacco.org/news/252532.html More than 71,000 packets of smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes were destroyed Monday in the Mekong Delta province of Long An, the local market management department reports. With the bust, the total of illegal cigarettes seized this year comes to four million packets nationwide. Most of the illicit products are under trade name Hero and Jet, smuggled mainly from the neighboring country Cambodia. Thanh Nien Vietnam Cambodia Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://story.cambodiantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/261351/cs/1/ http://tobacco.org/news/249137.html The illicit trade in tobacco last year cost governments $40 billion in lost tax revenues and amounted to 10.7 percent of the world trade in cigarettes, experts told a global health conference here Monday. 'Smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes are sold at lower prices than legal products, contributing to higher consumption and greater rates of smoking-related illness and death,' said Luk Joossens, senior policy advisor of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), in his opening address to a global conference on tobacco-related issues. 'The illicit tobacco trade also deprives governments of billions of dollars of tax revenue reducing funding available for public health and other programmes,' said Joossens. Cambodian Times Cambodia Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200705/30/eng20070530_379345.html http://tobacco.org/news/247556.html A recent survey by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) showed that a tobacco control policy will receive enormous support in Cambodia, local media said on Wednesday. Over 90 percent interviewers supported the government's adoption of a law on tobacco control, according to the survey of a sample of 144 staff members from the ministries of Education, Youth and Sport, Women's Affairs, and Defense across the country. It also found that more than 96 percent of the respondents wanted a ban on cigarette advertising, reported Cambodian daily newspaper the Koh Santepheap. The survey aimed to encourage the government to push for an immediate adoption of such a law, reported another Cambodian daily newspaper the Kampuchea Thmey. People's Daily Cambodia Wed, 30 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://english.people.com.cn/200611/29/eng20061129_326470.html http://tobacco.org/news/237005.html Cambodia loses 38 million U.S. dollars and over 70,000 lives each year due to cigarette smoking, according to a recent survey jointly conducted by Ministry of Health and World Health Organization. From 1996 to 2006, 82 percent of rural men, 62 percent of urban dwellers, and 82 percent of youth nationwide were cigarette smokers, said the survey. Meanwhile, 54 percent of men and seven percent of women in Cambodia were cigarette smokers, it added. "The danger of cigarette smoking is not as cruel as that of rampant disease like cholera, but it goes into our body slowly, destroys our health and finally leads to death," Lim Thai Pheang, president of the Institute of Public Health of Cambodia, was quoted by local media as saying. People's Daily Cambodia Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://www.examiner.com/a-399513~Panel__Smoking_Ban_Hurts_Casino_Revenue.html http://tobacco.org/news/236048.html Smoking bans are snuffing out casino revenue, but more marketing and investment can lure customers back, a panel of experts told a gambling conference. Since the Canadian province of Ontario imposed a smoking ban in public places in May, casinos along the border with the United States have suffered a revenue drop of 10 percent to more than 20 percent, said Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. vice president Karl Gagesch. "Short-term pain," Gagesch told the conference Tuesday. "Long term, we think we're going to be OK." The largest impact has been at Casino Windsor, which laid off more than 300 employees over the summer as American smokers stayed in Michigan and New York to gamble, he said. Visitation was also hurt by a strong Canadian dollar and tougher border security, he said. . . . A similar smoking ban at three racinos, or race tracks that also offer slot machines, in Delaware also had a negative impact, with slot machine revenue down 10 percent to 19 percent since the ban was imposed in 2002, said Richard Thalheimer, an economist and president Thalheimer Research Associates. Slot revenue has since rebounded, he noted, mainly because of the introduction of more slot machines. Karen Blumenfeld, a member of the New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP), heralded the panel's openness to adapting to a wave of anti-smoking legislation sweeping the country. "It's not the gloom and doom," she said. "I'm very relieved that the industry is now embracing these changes." AP Cambodia Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/07/04/1666895-sun.html http://tobacco.org/news/227521.html The Dalton McGuinty Liberals have channelled millions of taxpayer dollars into the Heart and Stroke Foundation's media campaigns which endorse the government's own smoking law. The $3.17-million "Smoke-Free Ontario" campaigns were completely financed by provincial taxpayers, but were exempted from Liberal legislation requiring government advertising be vetted by the provincial auditor to avoid partisan messaging. The ads -- which featured the tagline, "A Smoke-Free Ontario. It's about health. It's about time." -- ran throughout the period when the Liberal government's Smoke-Free Ontario Act was coming into effect this spring. Conservative Leader John Tory said the Liberal government was clearly searching for a "back door" to get around its own ban on partisan government advertising. Ottawa Sun feedback@ott.sunpub.com (ANTONELLA ARTUSO) Cambodia Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_on_fe_st/cambodia_food_poisoning_1 http://tobacco.org/news/226832.html Thirty Cambodians suffered food poisoning after eating homemade noodles contaminated with chewing tobacco that had dropped into the batter from the cook's mouth, police said Monday. The victims, mostly children, began vomiting after eating noodle soup for breakfast Friday in a village in Banteay Meanchey province . . . Sieng Sang, an avid tobacco chewer like many poor Cambodian women, said she had not realized a wad had dropped into the flour as she was talking. Police gave her a lesson in hygiene and told her to be more careful when opening her mouth while cooking, Yort Ray said. AP Cambodia Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=933192006 http://tobacco.org/news/226790.html THIRTY Cambodians suffered food poisoning after eating homemade noodles contaminated with chewing tobacco that had dropped into the batter from the cook's mouth. The Scotsman Cambodia Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=/CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&configFileLoc=CFCNPlus/CFCNPlus_VeritySearch_config&query=tobacco&option=&slug=tobacco&archive=CFCNPlus&site=Search&start_row=2&current_row=2&start_row_offset1=&num_rows=1&search_results_start=1&nav=search&subnav=story&brand=generic http://tobacco.org/news/207200.html Tobacco companies are in for a huge fight. The B.C. government has won the right to sue tobacco firms to help pay for health care costs related to smoking. A victory for Canada's health minister. A B.C. politician before going to Ottawa, Ujjal Dosanjh helped draft the legislation 8 years ago. "This is a product that in accordance with its instructions will kill," says Dosanjh. Canadian Television Cambodia Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.940news.com/locale.php?news=1605 http://tobacco.org/news/206236.html Montreal's Bell Centre goes smoke free Sunday. The policy will apply for all events, starting tomorrow, when the Canadiens play their first exhibition game against the Atlanta Thrashers. The only place to smoke will be OUTSIDE, near La Gauchetiere, Lucien L'Allier and Windsor Court entrances. All indoor smoking areas will be closed, this in accordance with the Quebec government's upcoming implementation of new regulations on the usage of tobacco in the workplace and public areas. 940 News Cambodia Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/219487/111947410642.htm http://tobacco.org/news/201118.html Nearly 1,000 people participated in the demonstration, carrying signs and banners that promoted World No Tobacco Day and ADRA's stop smoking campaign, the Tobacco or Health program. They also took part in a ceremony declaring the National Military Hospital (also known as Preah Ket Mealea Hospital) a "smoke-free zone." "The parade was aimed at raising awareness of the harmfulness of tobacco and the role that health professionals have in being examples of a smoke-free healthy lifestyle," said Ann Stickle, associate director for ADRA in Cambodia. The one-mile parade lasted one hour and extended from the National University of Management to the National Military Hospital. It was attended by medical professionals and government personnel and received extensive media coverage. Reuters Cambodia Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:00:00 GMT