It is reasonably easy to avoid tobacco smoke and the fumes from incense; it is almost impossible to avoid traffic smog and the fumes from cooking.Read More
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Elephant Mountain, which is to be declared a tobacco-smoke-free zone is an ideal spot to take photos of the Taipei skyline – on a clear day, presumably.Read More
Much change demands that something is done without knowing the full consequences of that change, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be a leap in the dark. Read More
Taiwan is set to ban flavored cigarettes, increase the size of cigarette-pack health warnings, and ban the import and local manufacture of electronic cigarettes.Read More
Yesterday on this site a story told how people might be paid to stop smoking. Today, below, there is a story about how tobacco growers are being paid not to produce the crop.Read More
A proposal that bigger health warnings should be introduced in Taiwan seems to be based on flawed reasoning, but that won’t stop their introduction.Read More
Sensing that smugglers are likely to be incentivized by a looming additional impost on cigarettes, the Taiwan government is getting its retaliation in first.Read More
Taiwan was planning to close all of the country’s tobacco-smoking sanctuaries, but, after a public consultation, has changed its mind.Read More
Taiwan is making no bones about the fact that a huge cigarette tax rise is being imposed so as to raise much-needed revenue. That it might force some to quit smoking is in the background. Read More
Is it ethical to force smokers to pay for a country’s long-term care plan when, given what is said about life expectancies, they are not going to benefit from such long-term care? Read More
