No Middle Road for Tobacco
The road map for the tobacco products industry needs to be orientated toward reducing production and consumption. It is no longer appropriate for the country to depend on the cigarette industry as a revenue earner.
Tempo
December 22, 2020
PRESIDENT Joko Widodo has to be firm in ending the debate for the tobacco industries’ road map. Policies to control consumption and production of cigarettes, ascertained to have negative impacts on human health, should no longer be subject to compromise.
Obviously, it is inevitable that different government institutions handling the tobacco issue uphold differing attitudes. The ministry of industry, for one, defends producers of cigarettes
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