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To adolescents, nicotine weakens their ability to exert self-control, concentration and memory. Some tobacco products could even be mixed with drugs, thus negatively affecting both physical and spiritual health of smokers. Therefore, it is necessary to minimise the young’s access to these products, Lam said. Arguments for next-generation tobacco products don’t match reality According to the Ministry of Health, while only 0.2 percent of the population used e-cigarettes in 2015, the rate among people aged between 13 and 17 alone has reached 2.6 percent in 2020, and even 7 percent in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Quang said to attract users, tobacco companies advertise that e-cigarettes are useful for quitting smoking traditional tobacco products and do not cause side effects. Together with various marketing tactics targeting young people on social networks, creating eye-catching designs, and providing various flavours, they are trying to create the impression that vaping is … [Read more...] about Risk of second wave of health effects posed by next-generation tobacco products imminent

Regarding the tasks and solutions for the development of the industry this year, Mr. Bui Ta Hoang Vu, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of HCMC, said that 2021 was the first year to implement the socio-economic development plan in the period of 2021-2025, with the theme of the year 2021 as "Year of building an urban administration and improving the investment environment", so the industry and trade would stick to these contents to implement effectively. Accordingly, the Department of Industry and Trade will develop and conduct the administrative reform in 2021, review the criteria with restrictions related to industry and trade in the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) to get drastic improving solutions. It will make a plan to contact and work with associations and enterprises to grasp the development situation, difficulties, and problems in the production and business activities and the development of the industry to propose the city solutions to remove … [Read more...] about HCMC’s industry, trade focus on supporting business recovery, market expansion

Regarding the tasks and solutions for the development of the industry this year, Mr. Bui Ta Hoang Vu, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of HCMC, said that 2021 was the first year to implement the socio-economic development plan in the period of 2021-2025, with the theme of the year 2021 as "Year of building an urban administration and improving the investment environment", so the industry and trade would stick to these contents to implement effectively. Accordingly, the Department of Industry and Trade will develop and conduct the administrative reform in 2021, review the criteria with restrictions related to industry and trade in the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) to get drastic improving solutions. It will make a plan to contact and work with associations and enterprises to grasp the development situation, difficulties, and problems in the production and business activities and the development of the industry to propose the city solutions to remove … [Read more...] about HCMC’s industry, trade focuses on supporting business recovery, market expansion

For people to be more efficient, they need autonomy. This comes with workers understanding their roles in the organisation and value network. Technology such as virtual twins can empower the factory workforce by providing employees with access to data and information that can be used to objectively measure their performance, as well as to focus on skills enhancement. … [Read more...] about Visualising success in factories of the future

Otherwise, the total consumption of fast-moving consumer goods plummeted by 7.5 per cent in the first nine months of last year. Of this, the second quarter was the hardest for the entire sector due to the month-long social distancing, and also the three-month closure of non-essential services like bars and pubs, the main consumption channel of beer. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 and Decree 100 keep hampering the local beer sector from recovery