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A burning need to stub out smoking in Hong Kong

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Cigarette packs in Hong Kong are set to sport even bigger graphic health warnings as the government ramps up measures to discourage smoking, despite the city seeing the lowest number of smokers in more than 30 years. A census report in 2015, the latest year such data is available, shows it has around 641,300 smokers aged 15 and above – about 10.5 per cent of its seven million population. This is Hong Kong’s lowest rate since 1982. Still, the Hong Kong government is getting tougher...

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