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[Japan] Stamping out Secondhand Smoke
The Health Ministry hopes to strengthen regulation ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The new measures completely ban indoor smoking in schools, universities and hospitals. Smoking at large restaurants, newly opened businesses, and c
Feb 5, 2018
NHK WORLD (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (jp)
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Feb 5, 2018 16:57
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[Asia-pacific] New rules in Japan take aim at heated tobacco
Japanese regulators are preparing to expand the scope of their rules against passive smoking, this time targeting heated tobacco products. This is casting a shadow over the fate of the products, which have managed to increase their share of the tobacco ma
Feb 5, 2018
Nikkei Inc. (jp)
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Feb 5, 2018 16:45
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Tokyo Games looming, Japan faces pressure to douse smoking
lawmakers here are coming under pressure to implement tougher restrictions against passive smoking before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics, with the World Health Organization and the International Olympic Committee leading the calls for broad bans in
Feb 4, 2018
NBC News
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Feb 4, 2018 17:11
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‘The industry must be inconspicuous’: Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation [FREE FULL TEXT]
(JT) in 1986 established the Smoking Research Foundation (SRF)...launched with the covert goal of influencing tobacco policy both inside and outside Japan...represents the expansion into Asia of the denialist campaign that began in the USA in 1953.
Feb 3, 2018
Tobacco Control
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Feb 5, 2018 23:36
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Japan's antismoking plan with gaping loophole sparks outcry
Japan's recently unveiled antismoking plan has sparked an outcry from lung cancer patients and other activists as it has a gaping loophole -- basically allowing customers at restaurants and bars to carry on lighting up. The plan released last Tuesday by
Feb 2, 2018
Kyodo News Service (jp)
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Feb 3, 2018 13:43
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[Asia-pacific, Japan] EDITORIAL: Draft bill to ban indoor smoking rendered meaningless
Unless it radically changes its stance toward the issue, Japan could end up entertaining many of the foreign visitors to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in smoke-filled restaurants and bars.
Feb 1, 2018
Asahi Shimbum (jp)
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Feb 1, 2018 05:08
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[Japan] EDITORIAL: A think tank of JT, by JT and for JT [FREE FULL TEXT]
We cannot ignore how tobacco companies have worked covertly to corrupt science, create doubt and thereby delay the implementation of effective tobacco control interventions. Iida and Proctor demonstrate that this continues to the present day in Japan. The
Jan 31, 2018
Tobacco Control
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Feb 5, 2018 23:32
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Japan's revised smoking measures threaten smoky 2020 Olympics, critics say
Two Japanese doctors on Wednesday raised concerns about the government’s latest effort to prevent second-hand smoking, saying it could lead to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo being held in an “extremely smoky environment”.
Jan 31, 2018
Reuters
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Jan 31, 2018 15:43
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[Asia, Japan] EDITORIAL: Can new bill help prevent health damage from passive smoking?
While imposing a smoking ban on eating and drinking establishments, in principle, the bill permits them to set up dedicated smoking spaces... The World Health Organization says there would be no effect unless a total ban is imposed on smoking inside such
Jan 31, 2018
Yomiuri Shimbun (jp)
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Jan 31, 2018 15:42
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[Asia-pacific, Japan] Health ministry unveils watered-down anti-passive smoking bill
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on Jan. 30 unveiled a watered-down version of a draft bill aimed at restricting secondhand smoking. The government plans to submit the bill to revise the Health Promotion Act to restrict the smoking of cigarettes,
Jan 30, 2018
Mainichi Daily News (jp)
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Jan 31, 2018 03:54