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Malaysia bans small cigarette packets after tobacco giant threatens legal action over delay, 15/06/1

Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:54

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia began enforcing a ban on small cigarette packets, the health minister said Monday, after a short-lived postponement of the move caused a tobacco company to threaten legal action.

The ban on the sale of packets containing fewer than 20 cigarettes took effect June 2, Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said. The ministry announced last month it would be pushed back by six months until January next year.

Rising Trend Of Teenage Girls Smoking Worrying - Rosnah, 11/06/10

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:01

The percentage of teenage girls who smoke, which is higher than of teenage boys, is worrying, especially when there are girls who started smoking even before reaching the age of 10, Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said Friday.

She said the 2nd National Health Morbidity and Mortality Survey (NHMS11) conducted in 2003 found that 28.8 per cent of teenage girls smoked, more than double the figure for boys, which was 14.1 per cent.

"This trend is very worrying as it clearly showed that there was a serious increase in the number of female smokers who started at a very young age.

Tobacco not just for making cigarettes - farmer groups , 13/06/10

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:58

MANILA, Philippines - The Agro-Industrial Productivity Exponents (APEX) and the Philippine Association of Tobacco-Based Cooperatives (PATCO), the biggest organizations of tobacco farmers in the country, said the tobacco industry is more than just for cigarette making as they took exception to Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral’s claim that the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) was being “inadvertently used” by tobacco companies to circumvent law by undertaking programs with them to promote their interest.

Cabral cited as an example the Miss Virginia Tobacco 2009 search held last year as part of the weeklong Tobacco Festival in Candon City, Ilocos Sur which she said was graced by NTA Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion, Deputy Speaker Eric Singson and Philip Morris executive Chris Nelson.

Ruling Sought From WTO On US Clove Cigarette Ban, 13/06/10

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:55

Indonesia will ask the World Trade Organization on June 22 to rule on its complaint that a US ban on clove cigarettes aimed at preventing teenagers from starting to smoke is discriminatory.

“We will ask the panel of judges and experts to rule in favor of our complaint and also ask the organization to issue a directive demanding that the United States withdraw its discriminatory regulation on clove cigarettes,” Deputy Trade Minister Mahendra Siregar told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday.

The complaint, Indonesia’s second against the United States and its fifth since joining the WTO in 1995, says tobacco legislation signed by US President Barack Obama last June is unfair because it bans cloves and not the mint used to make menthol cigarettes.

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