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[Malaysia] EDITORIAL: Stand up for your rights, non-smokers urged
We must all do our part – in the home, the workplace and all public areas – to keep our environment smoke-free. And that should include our intolerance of smokers who flout the rules or create their own smoking zones even within smoke-free office buildin
Mar 3, 2013
The Star (my)
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Mar 3, 2013 13:12
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Nigerian anti-tobacco advocates to push for higher tobacco taxes
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, over the week, trained anti-tobacco advocates including government officials . . . When the new bill gets to the parliament and is open to public debate, anti tobacco advocates plan to push for higher tobacco taxes and st
Mar 1, 2013
Premium Times (ng)
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Mar 2, 2013 01:39
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[South Africa, Massachusetts] Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
week’s “Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century” conference, sponsored by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The two-day conference, held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, brought together globa
Mar 1, 2013
Harvard Magazine
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Mar 2, 2013 01:17
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[Australia, China] CHAPMAN: Big Tobacco losing ground on plain packs but homing in on world's poor
This morning I reviewed a yet-to-be-published study from a rural tobacco-growing province in China where 89% of illiterate males smoke. Big Tobacco’s planners eye their world maps and salivate over large, poorly educated populations, ideally with corrup
Feb 28, 2013
The Conversation (au)
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Feb 28, 2013 15:36
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EDITORIAL: Long way to go for China's tobacco control
The most difficult part is to transform China’s State-owned tobacco industry through the whole chain of plantation, production and sales. Research indicates that China spends more money in treating patients of tobacco-caused illnesses than the revenue it
Feb 27, 2013
China Daily (cn)
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Feb 27, 2013 18:39
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[Africa, Europe] International Conference on Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century
February 26 and 27, under the auspices of the World Health Organization and Harvard University, representatives of more than two dozen nations, the African Union, the European Union and numerous other public health and international organizations will me
Feb 24, 2013
EurekAlert
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Feb 26, 2013 10:42
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[Canada, USA] Every Dollar in Taxpayer Funding That the Provinces and Federal Government Gave to US Studio Films With Smoking Costs Canadians Healthcare $1.70 and Contributes to the Premature Death of Canadian
Every dollar ... to US studio films with smoking costs Canada $1.70 in tobacco related medical costs and productivity loss. The World Health Organization has made specific recommendations that all parties to the global Framework Convention on Tobacco Con
Jan 26, 2013
MarketWire
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Feb 25, 2013 11:40
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[Europe] Borg: Tobacco Directive is balanced and ambitious
Healthcare NGOs gathered in the European Parliament to listen to Health Commissioner Tonio Borg discuss the controversial Tobacco Directive after he had attended the European Council’s Competitiveness meeting. Borg said the Council gathering had discusse
Feb 25, 2013
New Europe
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Feb 25, 2013 01:57
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[Europe, Malta] Exposure to second hand smoke reduced, but still high – EU
Protection from second hand smoke has improved considerably in the EU, according to a report published by the Commission today. 28% of Europeans were exposed to second hand smoke in bars in 2012 – down from 46% in 2009.
Feb 23, 2013
Gozo News.com (mt)
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Feb 24, 2013 09:09
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[Zimbabwe] Farmers slam WHO over proposed tobacco ban
THE World Health Organisation’s reasons for proposing a ban on tobacco on health grounds and for causing environmental damage in its production are designed to harm developing countries, the Tobacco Industry Development Support Institute has said. TIDSI
Feb 22, 2013
Zimbabwe Herald (zw)
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Feb 22, 2013 11:15