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Collection of tobacco control news, found 51 news.

TCSC IAKMI advocates for higher cigarette prices to protect youth

Cigarettes in Indonesia must be sold at a high price to protect young people from the dangers of smoking, according to ...

Quit Like Sweden Urges Progressive Tobacco Control to Save Millions of Lives on World No Tobacco Day

- Millions of lives could be saved with a more progressive approach to tobacco control measures, says a new platform ...

New Tholos Foundation White Paper Shows Safer Nicotine Alternatives Lead to Significant Reduction in Smoking Rates

- The Tholos Foundation, in partnership with Japan-based Pacific Alliance Institute and Sweden-based consulting firm ...

Cigarettes pose threat to Indonesia's demographic bonus in 2045

The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) cautioned that the existence of cigarettes is a ...

Pontianak City intensifying campaign on smoking-free areas

The Pontianak City Government, West Kalimantan, made the most of the commemoration of National Health Day by revving up ...

Komnas HAM seeks rule banning child labor in cigarette industry

Chief of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Ahmad Taufan Damanik called for a regulation forbidding ...

Cigarette smoke exposure stagnates growth of fetus: BKKBN

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) stated that exposure to cigarette smoke had been found to ...

Impose stricter regulations on cigarette advertisements for youth

The National Committee for Tobacco Control urged the government to impose stricter regulation on the display of ...

Bluehole publishes a feature story on global advocacy for tobacco harm reduction prior to WHO FCTC COP9

China’s leading vaping media, Bluehole New Consumption, today published a feature story on global advocacy for ...

Cigarette production projected to decrease by 3.3 percent in 2021

Cigarette production is estimated to decline by 3.3 percent in 2021 after the government raised the excise rate on ...

Seto Mulyadi urges government to ratify FCTC

Chairman of the Indonesian Children Protection Agency (LPAI) Seto Mulyadi hopes the government will immediately ratify ...

New government urged to control tobacco sales

Nineteen civil society organizations, led by the National Tobacco Control Committee, urged the next elected ...

CORRECTING and REPLACING US FDA action enables millions of American smokers to give up cigarettes

- Second paragraph, second sentence of release should read: PMI will bring IQOS to the U.S. in cooperation with Altria ...

Tobacco harm reduction can help stem Asia’s smoking epidemic

- Despite strict government regulation, high taxes, and extensive public awareness campaigns, smoking remains a major ...

Using tobacco tax to plug up BPJS deficit tax against law

The National Committee for Tobacco Control said the government regulation using revenue from tobacco tax to help plug ...