The health minister of Indonesia, the world’s fastest-growing cigarette market, has pledged to sign a United Nations treaty developed in response to what the UN’s World Health Organization has branded ‘the globalisation of the tobacco epidemic’.
Dr Nafsiah Mboi’s intention to sign the agreement will put her at loggerheads with Indonesia’s powerful tobacco industry, a backbone of the national economy which provides millions of jobs.
In advance of a meeting of the WHO Framework Convention on ...
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