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viernes, 30 de agosto de 2013

abc.net.au - 30 de agosto de 2013 - Tailandia

Thailand to press on with tougher anti-tobacco measures despite legal setback

Thailand's Public Health Ministry is planning to press on with tougher anti-tobacco measures, despite a legal setback.

Plans to increase the size of graphic warnings on cigarette packets were recently put on hold by a successful legal challenge from big tobacco companies.

Despite that, Thailand remains one of the leaders for tobacco control in the region.

Cigarette packets sold there are required by law to be half-covered in gruesome health warnings.

But in April this year, the country's Health Ministry decided to increase the size of the warnings to cover 85 per cent of each packet.

In the past week, that plan was halted, with an administrative court in Bangkok upholding a legal challenge to the implementation of the new law.

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