Cigarette smoke has big impact on pedestrian air quality
Secondhand smoke is a public health issue, and yet there is no literature on the subject for Hong Kong. In October 2018, Blue Skies China and research unit Urban Accelerator [...]
Urban Accelerator
World Health Organisation warns against working with Philip Morris foundation
The head of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat, Dr Vera Da Costa e Silva, has written a sharp criticism of [...]
Illegal Smoking Mapping launched
Blue Skies China has launched a pilot Illegal Smoking Mapping (ISM) project, with the aim of collecting data on illegal smoking in Hong Kong’s non-smoking areas. [...]
AXA divests from tobacco
Last year, AXA became the first global insurer to divest from tobacco. As a responsible insurer, AXA could not continue to invest in a product that is a primary cause of [...]
PM2.5 unhealthy in smoking plazas
Smokers cause a significant and dangerous difference in local air quality, results of our first air quality testing show. Using the TES5321 Air Quality Monitor, we took spot [...]
Tax hikes stem ciggie sales – for a while
Figures provided to Blue Skies China from government sources show cigarette sales plummeted following tobacco tax hikes – but have quickly recovered in subsequent years [...]
HK tobacco tax frozen for third year running
Hong Kong’s tobacco tax remains unchanged for the third straight year, following the latest government budget announced Tuesday 21 February. Tobacco was not mentioned [...]
Ashtray data collection starts
Introduction Accurately locating ashtrays on a map is important to analysis of street ashtrays and their effect on smoking behaviour. According to the Food and Environmental [...]
Physical addiction needs more than lip-service
Traditional “fear” appeals to quit smoking have no immediate relevance to youth, according to research by the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, published in Tobacco [...]
Virtual ashtrays may hold clues to smoking desire
Do street ashtrays encourage smoking? It’s a central question of our Zero Smoke campaign, and one which must be answered scientifically. Decent peer-reviewed studies on [...]