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Opinion 6 years ago
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Tobacco control at school protects children’s rights
Upholding children’s rights is a clever future investment of a nation. Without strong commitment to protecting them from cigarettes, we would not only be violating their rights but also neglecting their health and depriving them of their dreams and potential. #opinion
Opinion 6 years ago
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Killing our children softly – with our tobacco smoke
Indonesia is one of the few countries that hasn’t signed the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This means cigarettes are still extremely cheap and cigarette advertising is not prohibited. #opinion
National 6 years ago
'I'm a passive smoker': Sutopo leaves powerful warning against smoking before death
“I am not a smoker. There are no smokers in my family. I also live a healthy lifestyle. (…) Maybe one of the causes [of the cancer] was because I am a passive smoker,” he said, adding that most of the staff at the BNPB headquarters were smokers.
Editorial 6 years ago
Small step for health
Treading softly and ever so cautiously is the hallmark of our policy on tobacco, the livelihood for millions of farmers and their families. The industry, among the country’s largest taxpayers, has been identified as a major contributor to heart disease and stroke, adding pressure to a bleeding national health insurance program.
Editorial 6 years ago
Tackling smuggling in FTZs
The government finally decided recently to lift the cigarette and alcohol excise tax exemption for the free trade zones of Batam, Bintan and Karimun in the Riau Islands and the free port of Sabang at the northern tip of Sumatra, because it turned out that the fiscal facility was abused.
