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Tobacco Control 2005;14:224-225
Copyright © 2005 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

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New Zealand: butt bids

David Simpson

d.simpson@iath.org

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A cigarette butt must be one of the more bizarre items to be auctioned on an internet website, but the sale drew widespread attention and more than 130 000 bids earlier this year. It was not just any old butt, but one certified by the owners of Malt, a popular bar in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, to be the remains of the last cigarette legally smoked in the bar in the last few seconds of the day on 9 December last year. At midnight, the country’s stringent ban on smoking in workplaces came into force.


Pakistan: health professionals rally Medical students and staff from the Aga Khan University, Karachi, with the banner they used on World No Tobacco Day (31 May) calling for greater involvement in tobacco control by Pakistan’s health professionals. Some 50 doctors, mostly members of the Pakistan Chest Society, joined students and others at events to . . . [Full text of this article]


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