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Papua New Guinea: BAT’s "utter rubbish"
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Another in our occasional series about real health ministers, the sort who ignore the fact that the president’s cousin is on the local board of a big tobacco company, and tell the people how it really is. Our last example was from Fiji (see Fiji: finger for BAT, Tobacco Control 2003;12:7), and now a rival has been spotted in the same region, in Papua New Guinea. In June, health minister Melchior Pep talked to journalists about an advertisement run by BAT to publicise its World Environment Day clean-up. His succinct conclusion? "Utter rubbish."
Mr Pep went on to say that the advertisement, run in two daily newspapers about "working together to create a clean environment" on 5 June, made a mockery of the efforts of health service providers to promote healthy lifestyles and a clean environment. "The damage that BAT and other international tobacco companies inflict on
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