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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU health Commissioner David Byrne has been awarded with the Goethe Challenge Trophy for Smoke-Free Environment, notably for his pan-European information anti-smoking campaign for adolescents, “Feel Free to Say No”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has won the first – usually decisive – battle at the European Court of Justice over a case brought by Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco, asking its judges to annul Directive 2001/37/EC on the composition and designation of cigarettes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TEENAGE girls who perceive themselves as being overweight are more likely to take up smoking than girls who are comfortable with their self-image, according to a study in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Researchers found that girls who used weight control behaviour, such as exercising to lose weight, skipping meals, vomiting or taking diet pills were 50 per cent more likely to smoke compared to girls who thought themselves too thin or average.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TWO-THIRDS of the population of the Republic of Ireland are in favour of doubling the price of cigarettes, according to a new survey, which says the view is shared by 50 per cent of Irish smokers. The survey was carried out on behalf of the Irish Office of Tobacco Control, which was interviewing a “nationally representative sample of 1,500 people.”…

BY MARK ROWE
GORY images of diseased lungs may soon appear on cigarette packs in Singapore, alongside health warnings in an amendment to the country’s Smoking Control Act. Images including pictures of tar-filled lungs on cigarette packets are to be put before the Singapore Parliament this autumn, according to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.…

BY MARK ROWE
Malaysia is to ban all forms of tobacco advertising and sponsorship next year, with temporary exemptions for the lucrative Formula One grand prix and soccer events. Health Minister Chua Jui Meng said British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco Industry and Philip Morris have expressed willingness to drop all forms of promotion by the end of the year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROTHMANS, Benson and Hedges Inc. Canada, has lost a court battle in Saskatchewan, where the firm had argued the Canadian province’s Tobacco Control Act contravened the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Canada’s Constitution and that it violated federal anti-smoking legislation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN who smoke as teenagers have a 70 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than their non-smoking peers, claims a study by the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Canada. Research showed that women who started smoking within five years of starting menstruation were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer before reaching 50 than non-smokers.…

Keith Nuthall
WEARABLE technology and customised clothing for health-care, sports, quality-of-life and entertainment needs is to be displayed at a European Commission-funded conference in Brussels, on October 15. “The EU apparel business goes high-tech” will educate businesses how to use information society technologies to boost productivity and competitiveness, and added-value, such as 3-D body scanning, “virtual” trying on of clothes, mass customisation, multi-functional clothing and on-line retailing.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government has launched an investigation that is expected to lead it to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports of industrial sewing machine needles from China. Its action follows a complaint about the effect on Chinese imports on Indian domestic production of the needles by M/s.…