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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Figures provided to Blue Skies China from government sources show cigarette sales plummeted following tobacco tax hikes – but have quickly recovered in subsequent years [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]