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Clearly inadequate

Last updated: March 14, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Power firms plan to [...]

Seminar on Tobacco Control

Source: Tobacco Control Office, Department of Health Smoking is the major preventable cause of death in Hong Kong. The Department of [...]

Letters to the Editor

Source: South China Morning Post Below are some letters to the editor printed on the South China Morning Post: Honest businesses are [...]

Comment: Your freedom ends where my nose begins

First published: March 12, 2010 Source: Now Lebanon Tobacco kills, regardless of boundaries set by either man or nature. Every year more [...]

Higher tax will reduce Vietnam tobacco deaths: WHO

First published: March 12, 2010 Source: Viet News Online A 20 percent increase in tobacco tax may cause 100,000 fewer tobacco-related deaths [...]

Should Hong Kong remove all the ashtrays? Clear The Air comments

It is abundantly clear that the deliberately flawed laws are not working here in Hong Kong. The onus to keep indoor [...]

Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking? Evidence from developing nations

First published: March 12, 2010 Source: Voxeu.org Deliana Kostova Hana Ross Evan Blecher Sara Markowitz Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking? [...]

Get tough on cigarette sales

Last updated: March 13, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Although it is illegal [...]

Exposure to smoking in movies among British adolescents 2001-2006

First published: March 2, 2010 Source: National Center for Biotechnology Information Anderson SJ, Millett C, Polansky JR, Glantz SA. Division of Epidemiology and [...]

High time for the nation to enforce the law

Last updated: March 11, 2010 Source: China Daily My friends and I celebrated International Women’s Day on Monday by going to dinner [...]