适合跳古典舞的古筝曲:No Tobacco Day, a distant promise?//WHAT's A BLOODY BULLY!

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In response, Philip Morris has sued the government. It is thought that the company will demand at least $2bn in damages if Uruguay loses.
Whereas, if Philip Morris loses, then it must be kicked out instantly without recourse after compensating the entire population and infected Uruguay.
If WHO cannot or is gutless to help Uruguay in the court battle, then WHO should say good-bye in this world!
If emerging nations like China, India, Indonesia, ... ... ... do take the challenge jointly against Phil Morr.. ( if UK and developed nations don't care about ) , then Uruguay will win the court battle as a worldly example to knock big "tobacco killers" off the map of this world. Then, all of a sudden, the world shall be free from smoke inhalations, 1st and/or 2nd hand tobacco-diseased-guts smokes.
China knowing the dangers to health from smoking is NOT doing enough to halt it in China! Suggesting that, first of all, any known active NPC and/or CPC member smoker should be asked to resign in public news (* so everyone reads it *) as a good example to lead the way in China, otherwise, it is a degree of hypocrisy.
Are ferries, ships and boats enclosed public places?  Public ferries and boats along the rivers of China ought to be "SMOKING-BAN" completely without question otherwise the internal aircon system will be polluted as badly as 2nd-hand smoke inhalation drivers, and rivers will eventually be tobacco-bedded rivers of China!
Perhaps, holidaying ferry / boat operators for river cruises are worry of smaller profits with fewer holiday makers, but such thoughts are entirely wrong. Holiday makers are usually non-smokers who love nature as it is but not those with cigars and tobacco sticks in their mouths! China must do much more in this respect since smoking by said 500 millions Chinese of China is indeed China's # 1 internal enemy for it does not need any war to kill and disease that many Chinese ( if the dreadful experiences of the opium war are not worrying stubborn and foolish Chinese of the shames and national disasters of defeats )!
CPC, more urgent actions than words, ASAP, please!

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If you walk past any ashtrays today and find that they're filled with fresh flowers, don't be flummoxed, be encouraged to do the same.
It is the World's No Tobacco Day.
More than half a century after scientists uncovered the link between smoking and cancer – triggering a war between health campaigners and the cigarette industry – big tobacco is thriving.
Despite the known catastrophic effects on health of smoking, profits from tobacco continue to soar and sales of cigarettes have increased: they have risen from 5,000 billion sticks a year in the 1990s to 5,900 billion a year in 2009. They now kill more people annually than alcohol, Aids, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.
Currently, 5 million people die each year from the tobacco epidemic across the globe. The death toll is rising relentlessly, and will reach over eight million a year in two decades, with more than 80 percent of those deaths occurring in the developing world.
Until a serious action is taken, it is estimated that up to one billion people could die from tobacco use during the 21st century. In Pakistan, there is a high proportion of elderly population in villages that smoke hookah while in the urban areas, the youth is getting used to tobacco use through the seemingly harmless trend of shisha smoking.
The West now consumes fewer and fewer of the world's cigarettes: richer countries have changed – from smoking 38 per cent of the world total in 1990, they cut down to 24 per cent in 2009. Meanwhile, the developing world's share in global cigarette sales has increased sharply, rising to 76 per cent in 2009.

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Anna Gilmore, professor of public health at the University of Bath, said: "What most people don't realise is that, although sales are falling in the West, industry profits are increasing. These companies remain some of the most profitable in the world. This is thanks in part to their endless inventive ways of undermining and circumventing regulation. They're trying to reinvent their image to ingratiate themselves with governments, but behind the scenes it's business as usual."
This year's World No Tobacco Day is focusing on persuading more countries to sign a global treaty drawn up by the World Health Organization to ensure public health protection from smoking. Although 172 countries have signed up to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since it was produced six years ago, 20 per cent of them have still done nothing at all to implement its recommendations, and major countries, including the US and Indonesia, are still not even signatories.

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In Indonesia alone there are 21 million child smokers
In Indonesia alone there are 21 million child smokers. There is little to stop companies promoting cigarettes to young people. In countries such as Nigeria, Ukraine and Brazil, tobacco companies have sponsored club nights or parties aimed at attracting new young users. In Russia, attempts to entice women smokers have included packaging made to look like jewel-encrusted perfume bottles and even selling cigarettes branded by the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent.
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You have probably seen some of the smoking baby videos in the chatroom spaces online.  Now yet another of these videos pops up recently, igniting another round of debate on smoking, in particular, kid smoking. Mr Mulyadi said a ban on advertising is key to putting the brakes on child and teen smoking.
Dr Armando Peruga, programme manager for the WHO's tobacco free initiative, said: "We need to do more. We need to stop the tobacco industry promoting themselves as normal corporate citizens when they are killing people every day. We are lagging behind in establishing comprehensive bans on advertising, marketing, promotion and sponsorship."
When countries in these emerging markets try to clamp down on tobacco, the battle often ends up in the court room. In Uruguay, for example, the government had been leading the way under President Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, a former oncologist. In 2006 it became the first in the region to ban smoking in public places and now it wants 80 per cent of every pack of cigarettes to be taken up with health warnings.

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In response, Philip Morris has sued the government. It is thought that the company will demand at least $2bn in damages if Uruguay loses.
Courtroom bullying like this has a broader intimidatory effect on other governments in the region, which were already less inclined towards legislating further against smoking.
Laurent Huber, director of the Framework Convention Alliance on tobacco control, said: "In countries like Uruguay, the tobacco industry uses its vast wealth to tie up public health measures in court battles. Win or lose, this has a chilling effect on other governments."
These tricks are by no means confined to the less-regulated emerging countries. In Australia, which will become the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes by law, the industry has been accused of scaremongering against the measures by threatening to flood the market with cheap fags.
In Britain, the industry is also prone to taking any measures necessary to keep regulation at bay. This autumn a group of tobacco companies is taking the Government to court over its proposals to ban cigarette displays in all shops.
More often in the UK, though, Big Tobacco's attempts to alter public opinion are more subtle. A study from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), out this week, scrutinises the credibility of economic arguments used by the industry to fight back against legislation. For example, when Christopher Ogden, chief executive of the Tobacco Manufacturers Association, said in 2010 that the smoking ban had severely threatened the pub and bingo industry because of lost jobs and livelihoods.
Smoking is a huge problem in China. The cost per year to the health service was more than 70billion yuan last year - approximately £6.5bn. It has arguably the biggest smoking problem in the world, with at least one million deaths per year from smoking related illnesses.
As much as 30 per cent of China's population smokes - around 300 million people - compared to around  10 million adults in Britain. As many as 53 per cent of adult men smoke in China. The latest initiative in China  bans smoking starting May 1 in all indoor public areas.
WHAT's A BLOODY BULLY! Quote:
In response, Philip Morris has sued the government. It is thought that the company will demand at least $2bn in damages if Uruguay loses.
Whereas, if Philip Morris loses, then it must be kicked out instantly without recourse after compensating the entire population and infected Uruguay.
If WHO cannot or is gutless to help Uruguay in the court battle, then WHO should say good-bye in this world!
If emerging nations like China, India, Indonesia, ... ... ... do take the challenge jointly against Phil Morr.. ( if UK and developed nations don't care about ) , then Uruguay will win the court battle as a worldly example to knock big "tobacco killers" off the map of this world. Then, all of a sudden, the world shall be free from smoke inhalations, 1st and/or 2nd hand tobacco-diseased-guts smokes.
China knowing the dangers to health from smoking is NOT doing enough to halt it in China! Suggesting that, first of all, any known active NPC and/or CPC member smoker should be asked to resign in public news (* so everyone reads it *) as a good example to lead the way in China, otherwise, it is a degree of hypocrisy.
Are ferries, ships and boats enclosed public places?  Public ferries and boats along the rivers of China ought to be "SMOKING-BAN" completely without question otherwise the internal aircon system will be polluted as badly as 2nd-hand smoke inhalation drivers, and rivers will eventually be tobacco-bedded rivers of China!
Perhaps, holidaying ferry / boat operators for river cruises are worry of smaller profits with fewer holiday makers, but such thoughts are entirely wrong. Holiday makers are usually non-smokers who love nature as it is but not those with cigars and tobacco sticks in their mouths! China must do much more in this respect since smoking by said 500 millions Chinese of China is indeed China's # 1 internal enemy for it does not need any war to kill and disease that many Chinese ( if the dreadful experiences of the opium war are not worrying stubborn and foolish Chinese of the shames and national disasters of defeats )!
CPC, more urgent actions than words, ASAP, please!