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The Consumers Association of Penang lauds the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) adoption of the WHO’s (World Health Organisation) motto of “Protect women from tobacco marketing and smoke” for World No Tobacco Day on 31 May 2010 as the impetus for its focus on women being the main target for tobacco industry marketing in Malaysia.
In a recent media report, Malaysian Thoracic Society President Prof Roslina Manap stated that more women throughout the world are becoming smokers as tobacco companies continue to target them through advertisements and that in Malaysia, it is estimated that 50% of the male population smoke while women smokers comprise about 20% off the world's more than one billion smokers.
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is highly shocked and deplores the announcement that the government is going to delay the announced ban on small packs of cigarettes.
In a media report in the Edge Financial Daily (27th May 2010) it was quoted that the cabinet had made a decision to defer the ban and no new date has been fixed.
The Government should stop subsidising the price of sugar since sugar is nothing less than a toxic substance.
The recent 20 sen increase in each kilo of sugar means that the government will still end up subsidising a sinful sum of RM1 billion in 2010, based on a subsidy of 80 sen per kilogram. Malaysians consume an average of 26 teaspoons of sugar per day. This sweet indulgence has resulted in nearly 1.2 million Malaysians with diabetes, more than 98% with Type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to high sugar consumption.
Sugar should be sold at its market price because:
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