Abstract
MEMBERS of the Asia-Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) are calling on President George Bush stop dumping cigarettes on Asian nations. At a recent Eighth World Conference on Tobacco OR Health press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, representatives of APACT strongly protested what they say is an invasion of their countries by US tobacco companies that is aimed at Asian women and children. The association, which was organized in 1989 by antitobacco forces in China, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and other countries of Asia, says it is angry over what it calls strong-arm tactics used by the US government to prevent their nations from adopting tobacco-control policies. I know the United States needs to expand foreign markets to increase foreign trade, says APACT's honorary-life-president, David Yen, JD, of Taiwan. Taiwan welcomes the importation of US goods, automobiles, airplanes, trains, and ships.
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