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Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generationsUK politics – latest updatesWhen New Zealand announced its world-first law to ban smoking for future generations it was widely hailed as a lif…
Read MoreHealth experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of livesNew Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts – a m…
Read MoreThe country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in world-first legislation…
Read MoreStratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact China faces a health emergency from “hidden epidemics’’ of diseases such as canc…
Read MoreHealth cover varies widely between rich cities and poorer regions, and government messages on healthy living do not always go down wellChina’s ‘hidden epidemics’: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation The tyranny of distance and the yawn…
Read MoreLegislation will mean people currently aged 14 and under will never be able to legally purchase tobaccoNew Zealand has announced it will outlaw smoking for the next generation, so that those who are aged 14 and under today will never be legally able to…
Read MoreMeasure comes despite more than 43% of the country’s male population being smokers, including leader Kim Jong-unNorth Korea’s supreme people’s assembly has introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with “hygienic living environm…
Read MoreThe World Health Organization should not exclude Taiwan from efforts to tackle the outbreak, writes David YL Lin of the Taipei Representative Office. David E Hanke says an anthropomorphic explanation of viruses can be dangerous. And Robert East warns a…
Read MoreE-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China’s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks Online e-cigarette sales looked like a promising industry for Edwin Wong when he started his venture a year ago. The 34-year-old had studied S…
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