Tobacco is a leading cause of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) which kill about 41 million people each year. Of these, 15 million die prematurely between the ages of 30 and 69 years, most of which occur in low- and middle-income ...

Objectives: This paper explores changes in the level of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at indoor workplaces between 2010 and 2015 in Viet Nam and the association between the exposure and various demographic factors, using ...

Objective: This case series describes tobacco industry tactics and strategies used to interfere, derail, delay, and weaken the development of effective health warning regulations in Malaysia, Cambodia, the Philippines, and ...

Background: China signed the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and conducted a series of activities to protect people from secondhand smoke exposure. This paper explores the changes in ...

Tobacco use has detrimental effects in the Western Pacific Region. The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) came into effect in 2005 to address the global tobacco epidemic, and WHO ...

The 2012 Philippine Sin Tax Reform Law or Republic Act No. 10351 (RA10351) offers important lessons on tobacco taxation and tobacco control. In a span of five years, it increased the excise tax rate on cigarettes to as ...

The tobacco epidemic is a significant global public health threat, killing more than eight million people a year around the world. Although the average rate of tobacco use in the Western Pacific Region (WPR) is declining ...

In the Western Pacific Region, more than 3 million people die each year as a result of tobacco use – a problem for health and a threat to social and economic development. Countries around the world made a commitment by ...