Monitoring and exposing tobacco industry tactics in implementation of 85 percent pictorial health warnings
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How the Malaysian tobacco industry exploits loopholes in pictorial health warnings.
The Malaysian government ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005, committing itself to implement strong tobacco control policies. Pictorial health warnings (PHWs) were introduced with the enactment of the Control of Tobacco Product (Amendment) Regulations (CTPR) 2008. It stipulated that cigarette packs sold in Malaysia should have six rotating PHWs occupying 40% of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Induced Diseases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1617-9625
DOI: 10.18332/tid/84483