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J&K forms committee on WHO Tobacco Control Policy

J&K forms committee on WHO Tobacco Control Policy
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J&K Govt; to implement WHO Tobacco Control Policy

Uniindia: Srinagar, May 27 (UNI Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday has ordered to implement the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in the Union Territory.

Concerted efforts imperative to control smoking, use of tobacco products

Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh

Background In Bangladesh, the 2013 Amendment of the Tobacco Control Act made graphic health warnings (GHWs) on the upper 50% of all tobacco packs obligatory. However, at the time of writing (May 2022), GHWs are still being printed on the lower 50% of packs. This paper seeks to explore how the tobacco industry undermined the development and implementation of GHWs in Bangladesh, a country known for a high level of tobacco industry interference (TII) that has rarely been examined in the peer-reviewed literature. Methods Analysis of print and electronic media articles and documents. Results Cigarette companies actively opposed GHWs, while bidi companies did not. The primary strategy used to influence the formulation and delay the implementation of GHWs was direct lobbying by the Bangladesh Cigarette Manufacturers’ Association and British American Tobacco Bangladesh. Their arguments stressed the economic benefits of tobacco to Bangladesh and sought to create confusion about the impact o

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