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    Trinidad and Tobago Takes the Caribbean Lead in Tobacco Control

    By Keith R | July 31, 2009

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    Trinidad and Tobago’s Health Minister presented a pretty tough tobacco control bill in Parliament the other day, and seems confident it will emerge as a law in just a few months with little watering down.  It appears that Trinidad and Tobago will take the lead in CARICOM’s recent pledge to ban smoking in public places and among Caribbean states in implementing their obligations under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

    The bill would:

    Any manager, owner or lessee of any place where a violation occurs who authorized or who knew or, using due diligence, out to have known that the act constituted a violation, will be deemed liable for the offense and can be fined $10,000 and six months imprisonment.

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