Thursday 19 November 2009

The Kirghiz minister has urged to forbid tobacco advertising

The offer of the government of Kirghizia on an absolute prohibition of advertising of tobacco has met with in means in weight of the information approval from outside of committee of parliament on social policy, informs "Interfax-Kazakhstan" referring to the parliament press-service. It is expected that respective alterations in the law “About advertising” will be accepted in the near future.
During performance at session of committee of parliament the head of Ministry of Health of Kirghizia Marat Mambetov has noticed that the given measure urged to reduce quantity of smoking inhabitants of the state. “Full it is locked on all forms of advertising in mass-media reduces social appeal of smoking and promotes decrease in consumption of tobacco products, especially among youth”, - he has declared. Thus the minister has paid attention to experience of other countries in this point in question. As he said, results of researches have shown that after input of the given interdiction in a number of the countries their population began to use for 25 percent of less cigarettes.
At the same time the agency notices that the interdiction for advertising of cigarettes can strongly be reflected in local mass-media. Now advertising of tobacco products for many mass media is one of the main sources of incomes.

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