Summit of sub-national government leaders from over 121 cities of 12 countries in Asia and the Pacific region unitedly passed an important declaration in Jakarta, Indonesia to save lives from ...

“When we, APCAT, said we want to create smoke-free cities – that we will ban tobacco promotion, that we will safeguard people’s health from the tobacco industry, that we will reduce NCD-related deaths ...

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Mayors of the different cities adopted a 12-point ‘Bogor declaration’ at the end of the two-day summit, fourth of its kind, at the Indonesia’s green city of Bogor. The summit recognised the ...

“Tobacco use has become the second [greatest] risk factor for untimely death in Indonesia,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin asserted when opening the 7 th Summit of Asia Pacific Mayors (APCAT) in ...