8. The Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance
Imported
no person shall sell any
cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or cigarette
tobacco which contravenes the regulation on
Sale of Tobacco products
Cigarette Packet
Retail Container
Price Maker and Price Board
Resource: http://www.tco.gov.hk/english/legislation/legislation_tp.html
11. No Tobacco advertisement!
in any Printed publications
in Public places
in Film
on the Internet
Resource: http://www.tco.gov.hk/english/legislation/legislation_ta.html
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14. Many US tobacco
companies have a
‘trade
surplus’, making
exportation easier.
The low cost of
production makes the
surplus possible.
In the US, there are
only six companies
that control the entire
cigarette market:
1. Philip Morris (46.4%)
2. Reynolds American
Inc. (25.5%)
3. Lorillard (12.3%)
4. USA Gold; Sonoma;
Montclair (15.8%)
15. First piece came in 1964 which proposed
banning companies advertising their
cigarettes as ‘healthy’.
Put into law as the Federal Cigarette Labeling
and Advertising Act of 1965.
Next came the Comprehensive Smoking
Education Act of 1984.
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco
Control Act of 2009
16. 1967- Federal Communications uses ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to
give equal weight to cigarette advertising and anti-smoking
advertising.
Advertising banned in 1971.
EPA releases report in 1993 which labels secondhand smoke
as a known carcinogen. First report of its kind.
First full-spectrum plan at reducing teen smoking implemented
in 1996.
In 2010, more thorough laws regarding labeling of cigarettes
introduced.
In as of 2011, every US State and Wash., D.C. has
implemented an excise tax on tobacco use.
