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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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