Groups back moves to block smoking
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About 450 organisations have combined forces to champion a tobacco-free society and back the Public Health Ministry's move to expand the warning graphic on cigarette packs.
Somsri Paosawat, president of the Health Professional Network for Tobacco-free Thai Society, said yesterday that the health advocacy organisations came together after international tobacco companies tried to stall the ministry’s measure to increase the warning pictures to 85 per cent of the packet surface from 55 per cent.
The cigarette makers succeeded in petitioning for an Administrative Court injunction against implementation of |the measure scheduled for today.
Besides campaigning for awareness of the truth about the measure and tobacco’s harmful effects on health, the confederation also aims to fight against multinational companies’ intervention in state policies.
