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Loop News: Nine in ten Jamaicans want swift government action to tackle the country’s obesity epidemic, according to a post campaign public opinion survey led by Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health/Jamaica Moves.

Mongabay: Organizers of the recently concluded Asian Games in Indonesia had been braced for the worst-case scenario: forest fires flaring up and shrouding Palembang, one of the host cities, in a thick, choking haze.

Jamaica Gleaner : MORE THAN 80 per cent of Jamaicans would support a tax on sugary drinks, if revenues accrued were to be spent on programmes to reduce obesity, especially among children, the results from the 2016-17 Obesity Prevention Campaign Survey found.

All Africa: Online retailers in Nigeria are defying the tobacco control law and continue to make brisk business selling tobacco and its products to the public through their websites.

The Observer : British American Tobacco’s attempt to win public health contracts so that its e-cigarettes can be promoted as smoking cessation aids has been branded “a disgrace” by the public health minister.

Coconuts: Smoking will be banned in parts of 33 Yangon Region townships over the next five years, state media reported this week. The move aims to reduce tobacco consumption within the city.

Toronto.com : Students could soon learn trivia and play games while walking to five schools in Scarborough and Etobicoke as part of a pilot project that aims to reduce vehicular traffic at schools.

Milenio: Hundreds of orange cones and half a dozen city planners intervened in a school zone in Iztapalapa to redistribute spaces in the street and improve the safety of students from three schools in the demarcation, east of Mexico City.