KUALA LUMPUR: Graphic pictures of what smoking does to the body must be put on cigarette packages sooner rather than later.
He is calling on the government not to wait until the deadline to fulfil its obligations under the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Under the agreement, which Malaysia ratified in 2005, countries have three years to put in place limits on the production, sale, distribution and advertising of cigarettes, and to formulate government anti-smoking policies, like taxation, to limit smoking.
Dr Rahmat said the government should not wait until the November 2008 deadline, but implement the warnings now because the current warnings on cigarette packets were ineffective. Singapore and Thailand had already done so. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions
He is calling on the government not to wait until the deadline to fulfil its obligations under the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Under the agreement, which Malaysia ratified in 2005, countries have three years to put in place limits on the production, sale, distribution and advertising of cigarettes, and to formulate government anti-smoking policies, like taxation, to limit smoking.
Dr Rahmat said the government should not wait until the November 2008 deadline, but implement the warnings now because the current warnings on cigarette packets were ineffective. Singapore and Thailand had already done so. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions
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