Health Effects of Tobacco

12 Jun 2012

Talking to Petrina Wong, you would hardly guess that she was a smoker. Fit and active, the 32-year-old journalist regularly takes part in triathlons and plays tennis and golf weekly. It is...

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Quiz

29 May 2012

Thursday is World No-Tobacco Day, and the theme this year is 'tobacco industry interference'.

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Number of hard-core addicts rises

24 Apr 2012

The successful implementation of smoke-free legislation in Hong Kong has led to an overall decrease in the total number of smokers. But the remaining smokers who are finding it difficult to quit...

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WHO centre to help smokers quit is launched

10 Apr 2012

Medical professionals from across the region will learn the lessons of Hong Kong's success in getting smokers to quit the habit with the launch of the World Health Organisation's first...

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There is no excuse for smoking

27 Jan 2012

Smokers should think about how they affect other people. More than 53,000 people die of second-hand smoke every year. Smoking outdoors is no better. You are just polluting the lungs of people you...

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It's all smoke and mirrors

13 Dec 2011

I used to smoke so much that a friend actually came up with a joke about my habit.

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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HK on track to becoming first smoke-free city

The dwindling number of smokers in Hong Kong is setting the city on course to become the rich world's first 'smoke-free' city.

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Health bites

The spice of longer life

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Tobacco tax too much, too fast for poor

Hong Kong risks becoming an international laughing stock if lawmakers vote down the government's proposed tobacco tax increase this week, the Council on Smoking and Health warned yesterday.

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Boosting tax best way to cut smoking, expert says

Raising the tax on tobacco products was a globally tested and proven way to cut the rate of smoking, World Health Organisation anti-tobacco adviser Professor Judith Mackay said.

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For nicotine addicts, smoking is not an occasional pleasure

I refer to Markus Shaw's letter ('Officials' nanny state outlook is creating a society of small minds', March 1).

The comments he makes are similar to those from major tobacco...

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Rich, powerful women more likely to light up

Powerful and wealthy women are more likely to take up smoking, according to a worldwide study.

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