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Collection of tobacco control news, found 55 news.

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 ...

News feature - Tobacco control should not be a mission impossible by Andi Abdussalam

People have been consuming tobacco or smoking cigarettes since time immemorial, but global efforts have been made to ...

Indonesia faces numerous tobacco control challenges: Minister

Indonesia faced numerous challenges in tobacco control to protect children from its negative effects, Women`s ...

Tobacco real epidemic trap: Panigoro

Chairman of the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health (APACT) Arifin Panigoro emphasized that the tobacco ...

Education, health can support HRD: Academician

Education and health can support development of human resources (HRD) to welcome a demographic bonus in 2030 and ...

WHO encourages Indonesia to raise cigarettes tax

World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged Indonesian authority to raise cigarette customs and tax as it would not ...

Human rights panel asks govt to ratify tobacco control convention

The National Commission on Human Rights continues to encourage the government to immediately ratify the Framework ...

West Sumatra serious to overcome cigarette hazards

The West Sumatra Provincial Government is serious about protecting its people from the dangers of cigarettes by ...

This is how many lives will be saved

- The 1st Asia Harm Reduction Forum 2017, a regional scientific and policy forum in Jakarta aimed at reducing the harm ...

Protecting people against dangers of cigarettes

The Indonesian government must strengthen its efforts to protect the people from the dangers of cigarettes in order to ...

22nd Century now free of restrictive license agreement with British American Tobacco

- 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE American: XXII), a plant biotechnology company that is focused on ...

`No smoking` advertisement creates greater impact

Jakartas Provincial Secretary Saefullah said that the public service advertisement regarding the dangers of smoking ...