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Legal action taken against tobacco industry in Pakistan PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 05:44

The Tobacco Control Cell (TCC) in Pakistan has taken legal action against Philip Morris International – Pakistan (PMI-Pakistan) for violating advertising laws. The violation occurred in November when PMI-Pakistan printed an A4-sized advertisement in one of Pakistan’s Sunday magazines. The tobacco control law in force restricts advertising to only one square inch.

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Smokefree destination for tourists in Kerala PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 05:59

Travel guides call Ernakulam in Kerala, India the “Queen of the Arabian Sea” because of its spectacular beauty. Now it has an additional feature to boast about: it is smokefree.

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Summer intern at USEA develops an operations research protocol PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 23 September 2011 15:01
Nikhil Bordia, a medical student from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate in Brooklyn, New York, spent the summer as an intern at The Union South-East Asia Office, learning how to develop a research protocol and shadowing physicians at two of the large referral TB hospitals in Delhi. He also accompanied a Union technical team on a field visit to a rural district to observe community mobilisation for TB control.
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Research intern translates tobacco control study findings into a paper PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 23 September 2011 15:04

The small hilly state of Himachal Pradesh has been working toward effective tobacco control for two years with support from The Union South-East Asia Office (USEA) and the Himachal Pradesh Voluntary Health Association. In May 2009, the state’s capital Shimla was declared smokefree, and 11 other districts around the state are trying to achieve the same goal.

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Civil society organisations in India learn to work with the media PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 26 August 2011 04:42

Training civil society organisations to work effectively with the media is an important aspect of building awareness about TB. Read more. . .

 

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