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[Asia, India] ITC clocks 3% volume growth in cigarettes

Business Standard (in)
added May 17, 2013 23:39
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[Asia, Asia-pacific] [video] Indonesia: Big tobacco's last stand

The FT’s Ben Bland talks to smokers, lobbyists and health campaigners about why smoking is still so popular.
Financial Times blogs
added May 9, 2013 15:30
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[Asia, Korea - South] S. Korea mulls linking cigarette prices to inflation

The finance ministry said it has recently outsourced a study on revising taxation and non-pricing regulation on tobacco prices to accept opinions about its move to curb the country's smoking rate. "If cigarette prices are raised by more than 2,000 won a
Yonhap News Agency (kr)
added May 7, 2013 07:24
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[Africa, Asia, China, Zimbabwe] War over tobacco out-grower schemes

MULTINATIONALS and Chinese firms should leave tobacco out-grower schemes to indigenous players if government’s empowerment drive is to be meaningful, the Zimbabwe Economic Empowerment Council (Zeec) has said.
Zimbabwe Standard (zw)
added Apr 23, 2013 14:48
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[Asia, India] Changes soon in tobacco warnings?

Under pressure from the tobacco industry, the Union health ministry has decided to make changes in the “ratio” of pictorial warnings to be used on tobacco products. While, the tobacco industry was supposed to come out with new pictorial warnings from Apr
Asian Age (in)
added Apr 17, 2013 09:13
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[Africa, Asia, China, Egypt] It's a smoke world, after all

Tobacco companies even exploit revolution. According to WHO's Global Adult Tobacco Survey, when Hosni Mubarak's government in Egypt was overthrown and smoking regulations fell by the wayside, tobacco companies stepped in to promote smoking as a way to de
St. Joseph (MI) Herald-Palladium
added Apr 7, 2013 09:13
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[Asia, India] Ban on tobacco display leads to lower sales: Study

An international tobacco control survey has found that a ban on tobacco advertisements, especially where tobacco is sold, leads to lower sales of cigarettes. The study was published in Oxford journal 'Health Education Research' earlier this month. It wa
IANS - Indo-Asian News Service (in)
added May 20, 2013 15:13
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[Asia] WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY, 31 May 2013 / Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Many countries in ASEAN have enacted legislations to implement a ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship. These are focused on direct tobacco advertisements and sponsorship of sports and entertainment. Country that has yet to draw up national legislat
Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) (th)
added May 19, 2013 14:16
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[Asia, Asia-pacific, Philippines] Ban on tobacco ads pushed

The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance or SEATCA on Friday called on the governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to strictly ban all advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of tobacco products, as it claimed that there are loopholes
Manila Standard Today (ph)
added May 17, 2013 23:12
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[Asia] Laws against alcohol and tobacco consumption to be toughened in Turkey

TREND News Agency (az)
added May 11, 2013 14:44
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