SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The social implications of smoking have grown higher in recent years. With the government almost doubling cigarette prices in 2014 and major cities banning smoking on main streets, near subway station exits, and bus stations, smokers in Korea are likely feeling increasingly unwelcome. However, some experts are pushing for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – After a four-month grace period, the law that bans smoking near subway station exits in Seoul is now official. Those that smoke within 10 meters of any subway station exit will now be fined up to 100,000 won ($90). Since May 1, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and 25 Seoul [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Most cigarette packs sold in South Korea will carry graphic health warning labels on them starting on Dec. 23, in a move to promote people’s health, the government said Wednesday. The government has recently passed a law to introduce a total of 10 graphic health warnings to be placed [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The government decided on Tuesday to mandate tobacco companies to place graphic images showing the harmful effects of smoking on the upper part of a cigarette packet starting from December. A revised enforcement ordinance, which requires the pictorial warnings to occupy more than 30 percent of the front and [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – May 31 was World No Tobacco Day. Korea also celebrated the event’s 29th anniversary with various stop-smoking events across the country. The Ministry of National Defense announced a policy to reduce soldiers’ smoking rate from the current 40 percent to 30 percent by 2020. It is offering leave to [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The defense ministry announced on Tuesday a set of anti-smoking campaigns aimed at bringing down the smoking rate of soldiers to the 30 percent level by 2020 from 40 percent at present. The ministry devised the incentives to encourage soldiers to quit smoking on the occasion of World No [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of mild cigarettes that contain lower levels of tar and nicotine are increasing each year. According to KT&G (the Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation), sales of low-tar cigarettes – containing under 1mg of tar and 0.1mg of nicotine – accounted for almost 50 percent of total cigarette sales [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has actively launched a nonsmoking campaign and even set up research stations across the country to get people to stop smoking, according to North Korean media reports. In a report picked up in Seoul, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said non-smoking research stations have [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced a package of anti-smoking measures on Tuesday that would affect electronic cigarettes as well. It will also push for the revision of health-related laws to tighten control on ads for cigarettes, especially near schools, under the plan unveiled jointly by the Ministry of Health [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The government on Thursday revealed 10 graphic images showing the harmful effects of smoking that must be on cigarette packages for the first time starting at the end of this year. A diseased lung, a hole in a throat, and rotten teeth were among the 10 pictorial warnings unveiled by the [...]