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14-stick cigarette packs ban is on, 04/06/10

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 11:39
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KUALA LUMPUR: The sale of the 14-stick cigarette packs has been banned with immediate effect.

At its weekly meeting on Wednesay, the cabinet decided that the ban should take effect from June 1.

This comes eight days after Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai announced that the ban had been put on hold pending a study by the ministry.

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Tobacco Firms Call for stop to picture health warnings, 03/06/10

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 11:32
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An order requiring tobacco companies to print graphic health warnings on cigarette packs is contrary to law, the Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI) said on Thursday.

Complying with the health department’s administrative order will be a violation of the Tobacco Regulation Act (TRA) of 2003, the group said in a statement.

The law prohibits the printing of any other health warning on cigarette packs other than those specified by law, the group said.

Under Section 13 (g) of the law, “no other printed warnings, except the health warning and the message required (by the law) shall be placed on cigarette packages."

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Tobacco Industry continues targeting ASEAN women

Monday, 31 May 2010 10:35
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SMOKING among young women and girls in Southeast Asia continues to rise at an alarming rate, the direct result, regional anti-tobacco advocates say, of deliberate, focused marketing by the global tobacco industry. "Women in Southeast Asia are doubly targeted by tobacco companies," says Ms. Bungon Ritthiphakdee, director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA). "They are in the crosshairs for being women as well as for being Southeast Asians." With anti-tobacco policies and regulations becoming more stringent in other countries and continents, she explained, "tobacco companies see Southeast Asia as a key growth market; meanwhile, they see women and the youth as huge undeveloped consumer bases that can expand their reach beyond the traditional market of adult men."

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The Economist, Letter to the editor: The banned played on

Monday, 24 May 2010 12:43
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SIR – According to your article on the efforts in Indonesia to tackle smoking, the anti-tobacco lobby tried to stop a Kelly Clarkson concert in Jakarta (“Where there’s smoke”, May 1st). This is a misrepresentation of the position taken by tobacco-control groups. The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance joined its Indonesian partners in objecting to the sponsorship of the concert by a tobacco company, and not to the event per se.

The Economist would know that tobacco-sponsored entertainment has been outlawed in many countries around the world, and hence should not ridicule efforts by those who want to do the same in Indonesia.

Bungon Ritthiphakdee
Director
Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)
Bangkok

Link to the Letter to the Editor, published on the Economist, 22 May 2010 edition: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16160356

 
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