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09/02/2010 11:00 AM

"Smoking Baby" Stops Smoking - But Can It Last? : Indonesian Two-Year-Old Made Famous by Viral Video Kicks Habit -- in Rehab -- but Is Now Returning Home

The chain-smoking Indonesian toddler who gained instant worldwide fame via a viral video of him puffing away has gone into rehab - and given up cigarettes. But now, reports CBS News Correspondent Betty Nguyen, Aldi Suganda, 2, is heading home, and there's concern he ...

08/30/2010 11:00 AM

ICA foils cigarette smuggling attempt on ferry from Indonesia

Officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority have foiled yet another cigarette smuggling attempt - on board a ferry boat arriving from Indonesia. 2,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were found stashed underneath the floorboard of the "MV Ocean Raider" ...

08/30/2010 11:00 AM

Indonesia struggling to deter children from smoking

Indonesia is now struggling to make its young generation avert smoking habit as smoking age is getting younger from year to year. The government-sanctioned commission tasked to protect children's rights (KPAI) through its statement released recently said that ...

08/13/2010 11:00 AM

New Breath In Ramadan Campaign To Help Smokers Quit

The Terengganu Health Department is organising a campaign dubbed "Nafas Baru Bermula Ramadan" (New Breath Starts in Ramadan) in a bid to help hardcore smokers in the state to quit smoking. Terengganu Health, Unity and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Dr Abdul ...

07/13/2010 11:00 AM

Satpol Should Sweep Out Smokers, Not Beggars: City Councilor

The capital’s public order officers would be more helpful stamping out smoking in public places rather than being deployed to round up the city’s less fortunate, a city councilor said on Tuesday. Councilor Azas Tigor Nainggolan, who also chairs the Jakarta ...

08/09/2010 11:00 AM

Official points out hidden health risks of e-cigarettes

"When inhaled it will let out smoke with desired flavor, it's not dangerous and the LED light will lit up in red as if burning. It is just cool!" Thus went the promotion for "Rokok Elektrik Surabaya" (Surabaya Electronic Cigarettes). The pamphlet in which these words ...

08/07/2010 11:00 AM

Tobacco companies settle bribery charges

Two American tobacco companies are paying nearly $30 million to settle charges that they bribed foreign officials to get lucrative overseas tobacco sales contracts. The companies, Universal Corp. of Richmond, Va., and Alliance One International of Morrisville, N.C., ...

08/03/2010 11:00 AM

Smoking Ban Kicks Off Muslim Congress

Yogyakarta. Forget talk on how to deal with radical groups. A smoking ban was the main issue when delegates started arriving for the 46th national congress of the country’s second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, on Friday night. The facts that millions ...