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GST reform and unfinished business in tobacco control
30 Jun 2025 19:13 GMT
As India marks eight years since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on July 1, 2017, it is worth reflecting on this landmark reform. GST replaced a multiplicity of indirect taxes such as Value Added Tax (VAT), excise duties, and service …
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Global Tobacco Control Efforts Protect up to 6.1 Billion People
30 Jun 2025 16:58 GMT
… focuses on the WHO MPOWER tobacco control measures, the steps that countries … tobacco usage. The WHO MPOWER tobacco control measures include:
· Monitoring tobacco use … the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), it makes it difficult …
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Nigeria’s tobacco control act needs more than a signature — it requires sustained action
28 Jun 2025 13:10 GMT
… alcohol or other substances.
Tobacco control policy must therefore be integrated … . Regional collaborations with other tobacco control groups can help strengthen our … substance use prevention advocate, and tobacco control policy expert.
Views expressed by …
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Are youth vaping rates rising? Industry reacts to the tobacco control bill
27 Jun 2025 08:01 GMT
… its efforts to enforce strong tobacco control policies in South Africa”.
The … oral submission regarding the proposed Tobacco Control Bill.
Gcoyi stated that their … to tout alternatives to traditional tobacco control and highlight methods that support …
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France leads Europe in saying au revoir to beach and park smoking
01 Jul 2025 09:24 GMT
… proactive countries in terms of tobacco control,” Raquel Venâncio, senior policy officer … Partnership, a coalition of European tobacco control advocacy groups, told CNN.
While … the French National Committee for Tobacco Control (CNCT), told CNN. “Having a …
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The Future of Tobacco: A Smoke-Free Revolution in Africa?
01 Jul 2025 09:19 GMT
… developing nations.
“These so-called tobacco control advocates are de facto advocating …
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Prevention Could Cut Global Cancer Deaths in Half
01 Jul 2025 08:04 GMT
… due to incomplete implementation of tobacco control policies.
Alcohol, another risk factor …
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How profit hungry firms could affect the care you're given by doctors and chemists: JOHN NAISH
01 Jul 2025 01:00 GMT
… has increased and progress in tobacco control has stalled.
'Not only …
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Is RFK Jr's divisive plan to Make America Healthy Again fearmongering - or revolutionary?
30 Jun 2025 23:44 GMT
… century, alongside family planning and tobacco control. They prevent countless cases of … aspects of public health, from tobacco control to vaccination, where there is …
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I can see seven smokes shops from my bus stop - governments must act
30 Jun 2025 19:03 GMT
… out, is threatening Australia’s tobacco control success. The tobacco industry has …