WHO Calls for Complete Tobacco Ad Ban
Friday, June 6th, 2008It was only a matter of time. World Health Organization (WHO) officials have long expressed the belief that one of the most effective tools in decreasing tobacco consumption is a a complete ban on all forms of advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products and bands. They wanted it in the Framework Convention on Tobacco […]
If You Can’t Find It Here, You May Not Find It
Friday, February 1st, 2008Quite a few Temas Blog readers noticed the absence of new posts for several weeks. I was fully occupied with work day-and-night on the final stages of the total revamp and re-launch of my main site, temasactuales.com Although work continues on the Spanish and Portuguese versions (coming soon!), the burden has lightened enough that I […]
Argentine Consumer Law Congress
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Next week the Argentine Institute of Consumer Law (Instituto Argentino de Derecho del Consumidor – IADC) and the Judiciary Power of the province of Rio Negro (RN) will co-host next week (Mon.-Tues. 12-13 November) the tenth national congress on consumer law in the RN capital of Viedma. On Monday evening (at 18:00 hours) the congress […]
Giving LAC’s First Plastic Packaging Law Teeth
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007An interesting thing happened over the last two weeks. Well, interesting to people like me who’ve been following the packaging waste debate for decades, at least. Environment enforcement officials for Rio de Janeiro (RJ) state “blitzed” supermarkets in Rio de Janeiro city — first on 19 October in the well-to-do Leblon section, then on 23 […]
Alcohol Consumption in Brazil IV: Drinking-Related Problems; Policy Responses
Sunday, October 14th, 2007At end-2005, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) resolved to undertake a regional effort to combat alcohol consumption under the guidance of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). As they do, they’ll likely study the efforts of Brazil to take the lead on the issue. This past spring Brazil adopted a national policy and not […]
Catamarca & Mendoza Gain New Anti-Tobacco Laws
Friday, October 12th, 2007Two more Argentine provinces recently passed tobacco control laws, bringing to five the number of provinces (added to Córdoba, Santa Fe and Tucumán) plus the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) that have adopted tough "smoke-free environment" laws, and leading many Argentines to question why the national legislature remains unable to do the same. After […]
Eye on Ads: Brazil’s Initial TV Assault on Alcohol
Sunday, August 19th, 2007About a week ago in Rio de Janeiro the Health Ministry announced, under the banner phrase “Alcoholic Beverages – Know the Risks, Be Responsible”, the launch of its first wave of television public service messages in its new battle against alcohol. You can view first three below. Don’t worry about the language — most of […]
Helping Poor Countries Deal with Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Last month the World Bank issued an interesting report on chronic non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic lung or kidney disease, which I am adding to the Temas Recommended Reading List section on health. Perhaps by now you’re thinking that I have some sort of obsession about NCDs, since […]
Cardiovascular Disease in LAC Revisited
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Fellow bloggers, has this ever happened to you? You run across an important piece of news — a breakthrough study just released, for example — and are tempted to simply cut-and-paste into your blog the Reuters or other news blurb, or a related press release, or you’re tempted to make a “quick-and-dirty” post making (perhaps […]
World No-Tobacco Day in LAC: Bolivia to Introduce Control Bill
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007On World No-Tobacco Day (31 May) Bolivia’s Health Minister announced that the government is sending a tobacco control framework bill to Congress. Among other things, the bill will ban smoking in enclosed public places, prohibit most advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, and toughen labels and health warnings. The only details yet to be […]
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