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SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1988
INSTEAD OF ALL VEHICLES WEAVING ABOUT AS IN THE CURRENT PRACTICE, VEHICLES TRAVELLING ON THE SAME APPROACH ROAD WILL BR REGULATED TO MERGE ONLY AMONG THEMSELVES INTO A SINGLE LANE.
AS A RESULT, THE FOUR-LANE TRAFFIC FROM THE TWO APPROACH WILL BE TRIMMED INTO A TWO-LANE OPERATION IN THE FIRST INSTANCE.
ROADS
THIS WILL ELIMINATE FURTHER MERGING WHEN THEY MEET FROM CHATHAM ROAD NORTH.
VEHICLES
COMING
TRAFFIC CONES WILL BE PLACED ON THE TWO APPROACH ROADS GUIDE MOTORISTS.
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VARIATIONS IN TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS, SUCH AS THE POSITIONING THE TRAFFIC CONES AND THE REGULATING OF VEHICLE MOVEMENTS, WILL BE INTRODUCED DURING THE COURSE OF THE EXPERIMENT IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THEIR DIFFERENT IMPACTS ON TRAFFIC FLOW.
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO WATCH OUT FOR AND TRAFFIC CONES, AND TO DRIVE WITH ETRA CARE.
BE GUIDED BY THE
INCREASE IN CIGARETTE AVERAGE TAR, NICOTINE YIELDS
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST (10TH) BI-ANNUAL TABLE OF TAR AND NICOTINE YIELDS OF CIGARETTES RELEASED BY THE GOVERNMENT TODAY (SUNDAY), THE AVERAGE TAR AND NICOTINE YIELDS AMONG 101 BRANDS OF CIGARETTES IN HONG KONG HAVE INCREASED BY TWO PER CENT AND 3.2 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY WHEN COMPARED WITH FINDINGS RELEASED IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR.
THE AVERAGE NICOTINE CONTENT PER CIGARETTE HAS RISEN TO 1.29 MILLIGRAMS, AFTER RECORDING THE LOWEST LEVEL OF 1.15 MG PER CIGARETTE IN 1986.
THE AVERAGE TAR YIELD IS 15.4 MG/CIG, COMPARED WITH 15.1 MG/CIG LAST YEAR.
"IN FACT, THE FIGURES FROM THE LATEST ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE AVERAGE NICOTINE YIELD OF CIGARETTES HAS RETURNED TO THE LEVEL OF EARLY 1984," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.
"THE CONTENT OF THIS ADDICTIVE ELEMENT IN CIGARETTES HAS INCREASED IN THE LAST THREE SURVEYS AFTER SHOWING A PERIOD OF GRADUAL DECLINE FROM 1983 TO 1986. WE ARE WATCHING THE TREND WITH CONCERN, HE CONTINUED.
THE 10TH TABLE ALSO RECORDED AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF HIGHER TAR CIGARETTES ON SALE IN HONG KONG.
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