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Jump to full article: Phnom Penh Post (kh), 2008-07-25
Intro: Cambodia will not meet a WHO deadline for all cigarette packages sold in the Kingdom to bear graphic health warnings by early 2009 because a law on tobacco control has not yet been passed, says Sung Vinn Tak, head of the tobacco health unit at the National Center for Health Promotion.
The country ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requiring health warning messages and graphics to appear on cigarette packages in November 2005.
"To try to meet the deadline, we will soon issue a government directive," Sung Vinn Tak said. "We have created the directive to ask all cigarettes companies to comply even though we don't have a law in place yet."
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