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The Straits Times : Although less than 15 per cent of people here are smokers, no one is immune to the dangers of second-hand smoke, according to medical experts.

Borneo Bulletin Online: SEVERAL international media recently carried news with a video describing how a two-year-old boy in Indonesia is addicted to smoking.

Eco-Business: Organisers 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.

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.