It seems that Sri Lanka is preparing to impose standardized packaging on tobacco products, though it is not clear when this might happen.Read More
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It is surprising how those advocating standardized packaging are willing to set themselves up as the arbiters of color attractiveness. Such hubris came back to haunt Australia’s advocates.Read More
No individual government can stop people from smoking by banning the growing of tobacco. A government can stop people from smoking only by banning smoking.Read More
A proposed 500-meter tobacco-sales exclusion-zone around schools in Sri Lanka probably ran into the problem that, in some urban areas at least, the zones overlapped.Read More
Researchers in Sri Lanka say that tobacco farmers can make their livings in other ways; so they don’t want them called tobacco farmers. How about, farmers who happen to be growing tobacco?Read More
Sri Lanka is one of 15 priority countries that will receive support for implementing the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.Read More
Sri Lanka has banned chewing tobacco, including traditional chewing mixtures with added tobacco, because, it says, these products are dangerous. But it has not moved against cigarettes. Read More
Following a cigarette tax increase and the introduction of VAT, sales of licit cigarettes in Sri Lanka have fallen sharply, while those of illicit products have taken wing.Read More
Retailers operating in Sri Lanka have called on the government to exercise restraint in respect of tobacco regulations so as not to eviscerate, suddenly and drastically, their businesses.Read More
An investment aimed at the manufacture in Sri Lanka of ‘cancer safe’ herbal cigarettes seems to have fallen at the final jump.Read More
