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ONE STEP FORWARD:
TOWARDS A TOBACCO CONTROL LAW
IN CAMBODIA
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 Deputy Prime Minister Sok An assigned his representative, His Excellency Seng Limneou, to open the workshop confirming the government’s support. He expressed his concerns about both alcohol and tobacco ruining lives. He added that cigarettes are legal commercial products which is why much care is needed in establishing the tobacco control law. He stated that the government has requested the Ministry of Health to double check the law to make sure when the law is past there will be no legal problems from the tobacco industry.
“Today, through TV, radio, advertising and concert the cigarette companies are using media to convince the people to smoke more and more,” stated Limneou. “Even though the cigarette companies themselves know every clear that the cigarettes will negatively affect health, they still keep sending the wrong message to our people. The government, with Prime Minister Samdach Hun Sen, already signed the FCTC on November 11, 2005, acknowledging the harmfulness of tobacco. The FCTC was established to address the many diseases caused by cigarette smoke. The FCTC was ratified in Cambodia to promote and protect public health for all people. At the moment, the draft of tobacco control law is within the Health ministry. This is the third draft after the Council of Ministers sent it back for additional adjustments. Therefore, to contribute to build our country, to strengthen economics, to reduce poverty and to protect public health, today, on behalf of the Council of Ministers council Excellency Sok An, I do promise that I will push this law and will summit the tobacco control law to the national assembly as soon as we can. Once again I wish to express my appreciation to ADRA Cambodia, the non governmental organization who has been and is working very hard to help the Cambodian people to stop smoking cigarettes.” |
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 Buddhist monks and religious leaders are an influential social group in Cambodia. About 90% of Cambodia’s population of 13 million adheres to Buddhism by custom and traditional. According to these research findings presented, 93 to 97% of religious leaders surveyed support the government to take action on increasing the size of health warnings on cigarettes including pictoral warnings, increasing taxes and banning all forms of tobacco advertising. 100% support a government law to ban the use of tobacco in pagodas.
To demonstrate this support, the two chief monks in Cambodia joined the workshop. To close the workshop, a supreme monk, Tep Vong, urged the government to work with ADRA and all the Tobacco Control partners to curb importation and use of tobacco products due to their harmfulness. |
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