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The photos speak for itself. The tobacco industry in Indonesia - sponsoring police outposts/street stations in Jakarta and at the same time advertising the sponsoring companies' cigarette brands.

KUALA LUMPUR – Every year, the tobacco industry has to look for new recruits to replace its "dying" market. Dying prematurely from tobacco-related diseases, that is.

And they have found a large, susceptible group of victims to prey on – women.

So successful is their campaign that a World Health Organisation (WHO) report revealed the number of women smokers in developing and developed countries have increased, in contrast to the dwindling number of smokers from the opposite gender.

WHO projected the rate of women smokers worldwide to double by 2025, from about 9.0 percent in 2007. The current number of men smokers of about 40 percent has peaked and is slowly starting to decline.