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Item

No.

Subject

INFORMATION

Publicity on District

Administration (Cont'd)

13.

Smoking and Health

Purpose

5

Progress Made and Present Position

NT election turned out to be a great success, with a turnout of over 90,000;

(b) encouraging urban

residents to register as urban DB electørs during the registration period from 19th March to 30th April. Again mass media publicity such as radio & TV APIs, feature articles,

special RTHK programmes

etc. was used in

addition to district

based activities or-

Close

ganised by CNTA. co-ordination was main- tained between CNTA and GIS & RTHK.

Next Quarter Target

On 24.11.81, the Executive Council advised and the Governor ordered that :

i) CTEL should discuss with the tobacco industry and the television companies the means by which a phased ban on cigarette advertising from 4.30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. might be implemented with the least adverse effect on

Subsequent to a series of meetings held with the TV companies, a draft ExCo memo was prepared and was cir- culated to relevant branches for comments.

ExCo memo to be considered by Council in May.

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