Support the proposal to prevent the supply of tobacco to Singaporeans born from the year 2000
The Tasmanian Legislative Council has unanimously passed a motion calling for the sale of tobacco to anyone born from the year 2000 to be banned. The measure was put forward by independent MP Ivan Dean who said that the ban "would mean that we would have a generation of people not exposed to … [Read more...]
The proposal to create a tobacco-free generation, by denying access to tobacco to those born from 2000 onwards, received strong support when it was presented at a meeting of the Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network (HRTCN) as part of the pre-conference activities associated with the World … [Read more...]
Over the past year, medical students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have written to local newspapers in support of the proposal to ban tobacco sales to Singaporeans born from the year 2000 onwards. These young medics will one day inherit the care of future generations of … [Read more...]
By Jon Berrick & Euston Quah FOR THE STRAITS TIMES. EARLIER this year, a report suggested that Singapore is considering ways to tighten vehicle emission controls. In the same period, the Health Sciences Authority revealed that there had been a disturbing increase in the number of young people … [Read more...]
Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2011, which is the third in a series of WHO reports that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic, and the impact of interventions implemented to stop it, around the world. Here, we take a … [Read more...]
Following the publication of an editiorial on Monday, which offered support for the proposal to prohibit the sale of tobacco to those born after 2000, this letter from the proposal's authors was published in today's print and online editions of the Straits Times: MONDAY'S Straits Times … [Read more...]
In his World No Tobacco Day message, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon laments that tobacco "killed approximately 100 million people in the twentieth century, and unless we act, it could kill up to a billion in this century." The World Health Organisation (WHO) has selected "The WHO Framework … [Read more...]
Will the tobacco epidemic ever end? This is the question Professor A J Berrick, one of the authors of the proposal to prohibit the supply of tobacco to Singaporeans born from the year 2000, addressed in a presentation entitled "The End of Tobacco" at a seminar in the Department of Epidemiology … [Read more...]
The most recent figures from the National Health Survey conducted last year indicate an alarming increase in the percentage of Singaporeans smoking cigarettes. 14.3% of adults are now smokers compared with 12.6% in 2004. Even more concerning is the prevalence of smoking amongst young Singaporeans … [Read more...]
Towards Tobacco-Free Singapore now has over 10,000 Facebook fans. The milestone was reached yesterday, barely 10 weeks after the online campaign was launched last November. This remarkable achievement in such a short amount of time illustrates the strong support amongst Singaporeans for action to be … [Read more...]
