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[Mid-east] UAE likely to revise tax on tobacco products
A GCC level proposal, if implemented will cause local tax on tobacco sales and production to replace the customs duty currently enforced, reported Khaleej Times.
May 31, 2012
MENAFN.com
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Jun 2, 2012 22:05
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[Mid-east, Oman] Sultanate ranked 19th in global report on cigarette package health warnings
Oman, which adopted pictorial warnings on all tobacco products from August 9 this year, has been ranked 19th along with other countries in GCC in the ‘Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report 2012’.
Nov 27, 2012
Muscat Daily (om)
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Nov 27, 2012 06:50
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[Mid-east, Saudi Arabia] GCC to enforce legislation on cigarette labeling
Saudi Arabia and all other member states of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are on course to become the latest to require the use of graphic warning labels on every cigarette packet brought into their territories.
Sep 1, 2012
MENAFN.com
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Sep 1, 2012 14:14
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[Mid-east] Iran to export cigarettes to neighbouring countries ($$)
Mar 18, 2013
TREND News Agency (az)
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Mar 18, 2013 09:44
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[Mid-east, Saudi Arabia] AL-MAEENA: The evils of big tobacco companies
Governments must slap heavy taxes on cigarettes to pay for the ever-increasing cost of healthcare for smoke-related diseases. The taxes should also fund countrywide anti-smoking educational campaigns
Sep 20, 2012
Saudi Gazette Online (sa)
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Sep 20, 2012 13:33
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[China, Mid-east, Uae] Shisha pipe demand goes up in smoke in Chinese factory
Yet on this day, there is little of the buzz one would expect of a Chinese assembly plant. The turmoil in much of the Middle East, the key market, has seen orders halve, and the company's owner, Luo Weiguo, hopes for stability in the Arab world and a rec
Aug 2, 2012
The National Newspaper (ae)
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Aug 2, 2012 17:22
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[Mid-east, Saudi Arabia] GCC states mull 50% tax on soft drinks, cigarettes
May 10, 2012
Arabian Business
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May 13, 2012 21:28
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[Lebanon, Mid-east, Syria] Tobacco control in the Middle East : The Lancet Oncology ($$)
A visit from WHO in the winter of 2010 confirmed that the Syrian ban was indeed being implemented, but the events of the past 18 months or so make it unlikely that this is still the case. Neighbouring Lebanon is in a better position to ...
Oct 12, 2012
The Lancet (uk)
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Oct 14, 2012 16:16
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[Mid-east, Uae] GCC countries warned of heavy price for smoking
"The magnitude of tobacco consumption is a huge issue," said Prof Tawfik Khoja, the director general of the Executive Board of the GCC Health Ministers' Council. He was speaking at the opening day of the 14th Gulf Symposium on Tobacco Control.
Jun 8, 2012
The National Newspaper (ae)
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Jun 12, 2012 00:28
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[Mid-east] Gulf countries to add new logos to cigarettes in effort to curtail smoking
Tobacco retailers in the Gulf region will now be forced to begin importing cigarettes with graphic warnings about the dangers of smoking, after its approval by the 6 Gulf countries in a bid to start pushing customers to quit smoking.
Aug 7, 2012
Bikya Masr (eg)
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Aug 7, 2012 13:39