WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1991
NO PLAN TO BAN TOBACCO ADS ALTOGETHER
THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLAN, FOR THE TOBACCO ADVERTISING EVENTUALLY.
TIME BEING, ΤΟ BAN ALL
WELFARE, THE HON MICHAEL THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND
A
BY QUESTION
THE
JIMMY HON CARTLAND, SAID THIS WHEN REPLYING TO MCGREGOR IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
POLICY
SINCE 1975 TO DISCOURAGE "IT HAS BEEN GOVERNMENT'S SMOKING, TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC (PARTICULARLY THE YOUNG) ON THE HEALTH OF TOBACCO PROMOTION HAZARDS OF SMOKING AND TO REDUCE THE INFLUENCE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE," MR CARTLAND SAID.
PRESCRIBED CIGARETTE ADVERTISEMENTS.
HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS A
HEALTH
WARNING SHOULD
REQUIREMENT LEGISLATIVE
DISPLAYED BE PROPERLY
THAT A IN ALL
HE SAID
PROGRESSIVELY
REDUCE THE
GOVERNMENT THE ΤΟ
HAD
FURTHERMORE,
THE
GOVERNMENT
CIGARETTE ADVERTISING, ESPECIALLY THOSE FORMS TO WHICH THE YOUNG WERE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE.
"ADVERTISING ON TELEVISION AND
DECEMBER 1, 1990. WE
DECEMBER 1991," THE SECRETARY SAID.
LICENSING CONDITIONS, CIGARETTE
INTRODUCED ALSO FOR SCOPE
MEASURES.
RADIO HAS BEEN BANNED SINCE
IN CINEMAS BY BAN AIM ΤΟ IMPOSE A SIMILAR
STOP SHELTERS,
HULLS
OF FERRY
CONCOURSES, HE ADDED.
"WE WILL
BE
OF WAY ON TAXI ROOFS, BUS AND IN THE STAR FERRY
OPPORTUNITY EVERY TAKING CONDITIONS TO EXTEND SUCH PROHIBITIONS," MR CARTLAND SAID.
HAD ADVERTISEMENTS
VESSELS,
PROHIBITED,
BY
REVIEW
LICENSING
REMAIN, AND WOULD HE STRESSED THAT THE APPROACH HAD BEEN, OF STEADILY REDUCING THE INFLUENCE OF CIGARETTE PROMOTION.
ONE
THE MEASURES ADOPTED WERE REGULARLY REVIEWED IN COMMUNITY REACTIONS, HE ADDED.
THE LIGHT OF
ΤΟ
0
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