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[Asia-pacific, Greece] Hong Kong customs officers seize 20 million cigarettes in biggest operation since 2007
Hong Kong customs officers believe they have dealt a heavy blow to an international smuggling syndicate following the seizure of HK$54 million worth of contraband cigarettes which arrived from Vietnam. The 20 million Karelia cigarettes from Greece, hidde
Sep 23, 2016
South China Morning Post
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Sep 23, 2016 19:17
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[Asia, Asia-pacific, Hong Kong] Vaping is saving lives, American think tank argues
The Reason Foundation urges the Hong Kong government to adopt a rational and lenient policy towards vaping instead of condemning the city’s 600,000-plus smokers to death...a new research paper, The Vapour Revolution: How bottom-up innovation is saving liv
Sep 2, 2016
Harbour Times (hk)
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Sep 3, 2016 14:37
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[Australia, Hong Kong] ABF seizes more than one million cigarettes
Australian Border Force (ABF) officers targeted 17 pallets that arrived from Hong Kong for inspection on 15 August 2016. The boxes, labelled as porcelain tiles, contained more than one million sticks of ‘Brass’ brand cigarettes.
Sep 1, 2016
Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection (au)
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Sep 3, 2016 13:19
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[Asia, Asia-pacific, Europe, Hong Kong] World’s vaping industry under thick cloud as HK moves to complete ban
Hong Kong is one step closer to imposing a complete ban...planning to table an amendment bill in the 2016/2017 legislative year to “completely prohibit the import, manufacture, sale, distribution and advertising of e-cigarettes”.
Aug 10, 2016
Harbour Times (hk)
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Aug 10, 2016 18:58
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[Asia-pacific] Change in the air as Hong Kong health bureau bids to ban e-cigarettes and improve organ donation
In an exclusive interview with the Post, Undersecretary for Food and Health Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee reveals the bureau’s goals in the final nine months of the current administration
Aug 1, 2016
South China Morning Post
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Aug 1, 2016 15:28
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[Asia-pacific] Holy Smokes! MTR passenger puffs on cigarettes, drinks beer on busy train to Hong Kong public's horror
"I turned around and saw this guy sitting there, having a cigarette. A woman went up to him and asked if he was for real, then pulled the emergency call handle." MTR workers boarded the train and seemingly convinced the man to put his cigarette out.
Jul 18, 2016
Coconuts Media (hk)
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Jul 23, 2016 20:25
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[Asia-pacific, Hong Kong] Another commuter gets away with smoking inside MTR station
A woman was found smoking inside the Cheung Sha Wan MTR station, but she only received a verbal warning from staff of the train operator. At 9:40 a.m. Thursday a woman wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans was seen smoking while walking along the conco
Jul 22, 2016
EJ Insight (Hong Kong Economic Journal) (hk)
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Jul 22, 2016 23:46
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[Asia-pacific, Hong Kong] Tobacco sales in China take hit from tax rises and luxury crackdown
China’s tobacco industry gasped for life in the first five months of the year, with sales taking big hits from tax increases and Beijing’s war on extravagance. Revenue fell 11.7 per cent year on year from January to May and profits were down 24 per cent,
Jun 28, 2016
South China Morning Post
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Jun 30, 2016 16:35
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[Asia-pacific, Hong Kong, Poland] Harsh words for HK regulators on e-cigs
Hong Kong regulators are again panned for refusing to engage in any sort of discussion on e-cigarettes as the global vaping community meets in Warsaw for the third year. An Asian smokers’ rights advocacy group has condemned Undersecretary for Food and He
Jun 23, 2016
Harbour Times (hk)
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Jun 23, 2016 18:17
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[Asia-pacific, Hong Kong] LCQ20: Regulation of e-cigarettes
Following is a question by the Dr Hon Priscilla Leung...will the Government inform this Council: Has the Food and Health Bureau (FHB) submitted a paper to the Panel on Health Services of this Council in as early as May last year indicating that the Gover
Jun 15, 2016
7thSpace Interactive (portal)
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Jun 15, 2016 17:26