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India reaffirmed on Tuesday its commitment to a World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco-control treaty, despite lobbying from its $11 billion industry that opposes some measures in the treaty that will be discussed at a conference next week.
A report titled Youth and Tobacco in the Western Pacific Region: global youth tobacco survey 2005-2014 said at least 4.2 million students in Western Pacific countries are cigarette smokers.
As Beijing marked the first anniversary of China's toughest anti-smoking measures, experts called for stronger regulations to safeguard the population. Wang Xiaodong reports.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday urged the plain packaging of tobacco products, saying it is a "simple measure with proven effectiveness in reducing demand."
Proposals to take the gloss of tobacco packaging were unveiled by the New Zealand government Tuesday as part of its campaign to eradicate smoking by 2025.
Around 60,000 people, including 1, 500-3,000 passive smokers, die in Spain a year as a result of the use of tobacco, according to a study published on Monday.
Smoking among Australia's youth has reached a record low, with researchers attributing the steady decline to tighter regulation of tobacco products.
New Zealand legislators and health advocates on Tuesday renewed calls for the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products following the tobacco industry' s failure to stop similar moves in Australia.
Australia's government has won its case against tobacco giant Phillip Morris, fighting off an investor-state dispute challenge to its controversial tobacco plain packaging laws.
China's 300 million smokers are turning to slim and super-slim cigarettes in the mistaken belief that they will be exposed to less harmful chemicals than traditional brands.
China's New Year blockbuster "Gone With The Bullets" was given an award of shame for excessive smoking as part of the country's latest anti-tobacco campaign.
China's top legislature began Monday reviewing a draft amendment to the Advertisement Law that proposes a ban on baby formula and tobacco advertising.
China has announced that procurement prices for tobacco leaves will now be set by supply and demand, in a country where one-third of the world's cigarettes are consumed but where sales of high-end cigarettes have dropped during the recent corruption crackdown.
The nation's top health authority is pushing for a hike in the cigarette tax and retail prices to curb smoking in China, the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer, a senior health official said.
China is considering raising tobacco taxes and cigarette prices to reduce the number of smokers in the country, said an official on Wednesday.
China is mulling a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco products, according to a draft regulation on Monday.
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