The declaration – adopted by delegates to the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health held last week in Chiba, Japan – also requests that Indonesia refuse to host World Tobacco Asia 2014 scheduled to be held in Bali next year. World Tobacco Asia is a tobacco industry market exhibition and conference.
In Indonesia, 61.4 million adults currently using tobacco. As a consequence, smoking kills 235,000 people each year, and healthcare costs related to smoking amount to 1.2 billion USD per year across the country. Indonesia's poor households with smokers spend 11.5% of their household income on tobacco products and only about 4% for education.
This declaration is one of five statements issues by the 785 delegates from 42 countries who attended the Conference.
Click here to read the full statement: 2013 APACT Declaration on Tobacco Control in Indonesia
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