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[Massachusetts] Mass anti-tobacco spending goes up in smoke
Twenty years ago, supporters of a Massachusetts tobacco tax increase had lofty goals for the money it would bring in. A voter-approved 1992 ballot initiative nearly doubled the cigarette tax - from 26 cents to 51 cents a pack - to fund the creation of t
May 28, 2013
Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger
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May 28, 2013 13:30
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[Cyprus] National anti-smoking plan on the way
THE HEALTH ministry is pushing ahead with a national committee to draw up an anti-smoking plan and supervise its implementation, the health minister said yesterday ahead of Friday’s World No Tobacco Day.
May 28, 2013
Cyprus Mail (cy)
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May 28, 2013 07:02
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[Asia, Asia-pacific, Philippines] Davao to host first smoke-free workshop
THE Davao City Anti-Smoking Task Force will host the first smoke-free workshop to be attended by Association of South East Nation (Asean) countries on July 8 to 10.
May 28, 2013
Cebu City Sun Star (ph)
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May 28, 2013 05:49
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[Europe] VIDEO: Do tobacco control measures reduce tobacco use?
The seminar will offer a review of the scientific evidence on effectiveness of key measures to reduce smoking, with special reference to the issues addressed by the revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
May 27, 2013
You Tube
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May 29, 2013 15:48
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[Asia, Pakistan] Database of tobacco control developed
TheNetwork, a local consumer protection organisation, has developed a searchable database of tobacco control.The database, the first of its kind in the country, will be launched and exhibited at National Press Club today (Monday).
May 27, 2013
The News (pk)
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May 27, 2013 11:39
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[Massachusetts] As state diverts tobacco funds, treatment programs up in smoke
This fiscal year, state government will collect a combined $815 million in tobacco taxes and payments from a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies. It will spend $4.1 million on antitobacco programs -- less than 1 percent of total revenues.
May 27, 2013
Lowell (MA) Sun
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May 27, 2013 11:20
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[Taiwan] Groups say smoking levy should be used for health
Women and children should be the main beneficiaries of a health and welfare surcharge levied on the sales of cigarettes, health promotion and child-protection groups, along with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Alicia Wang (王育æ•), said on
May 26, 2013
Taipei Times (tw)
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May 26, 2013 01:42
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Challenges for philanthropy and tobacco control in China (1986–2012)
The ultimate question is whether foreign philanthropy is making a difference in tobacco control and changing social norms in China? The answer is plainly and simply that we do not know; the evidence is not yet available.
May 25, 2013
Tobacco Control
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May 28, 2013 12:17
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CDC to doctors: Help your patients quit smoking!
The campaign – "Talk With Your Doctor" – also encourages clinicians to ask patients whether they smoke and to offer them assistance giving up cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with several national physicians' org
May 23, 2013
Los Angeles Times
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May 23, 2013 02:54
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Supplement / Death and taxes: using the latter to reduce the former
Taxation has become a First Principle of tobacco control worldwide, hailed by the World Bank's 1999 ‘bible’ of international tobacco control, Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control,1 and embodied in Article 6 of the Framewo
May 22, 2013
Tobacco Control
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May 23, 2013 13:41