| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
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| International: Hong Kong |
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| "Smoking by teen-agers and children is soaring all over Asia, especially among girls. |
| In Hong Kong, where American tobacco blends make up 94 percent of the market, |
| Salem sponsors tennis tournaments featuring the American player Michael Chang, an |
| idol of Hong Kong girls. A Madonna concert from Spain was rebroadcast into Hong |
| Kong as a Salem Madonna concert. Stores sell Camel and Marlboro caps, watches |
| and binoculars. While the manufacturers deny they are targeting young people, the |
| merchandise and events they offer appeal mainly to teen-agers. Cigarette advertising |
| is banned from television and radio, but billboards and print ads showing young |
| people having sophisticated fun are practically identical to those in the United States. |
| These ads piggyback on the lure of American pop culture, which represents freedom |
| and excitement for many Asian youths." |
| New York Times editorial "Selling Cigarettes in Asia", September 10, 1997, p. A22 |
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| The City University of Hong Kong, with 15,000 students and staff, has been entirely smoke-free since 1989, including all teaching, administrative, and recreational buildings, as well as university vehicles. |
| Judith Mackay, M.D. |
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| Dr. Judith Mackay, Hong Kong and Asia's most prominent tobacco control advocate, as been described by a U.S. smokers' rights group as "an insane psychotic just like Hitler, using fatuous smarmy drivel and distortions, and diatribes full of putrid corruption, lies, conspiracy, and total censorship." |
| The Doctor-Activist, Ellen Bassuk, Plenum Press, 1996 |
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