A popular movement under the banner You Stink called for an end to the garbage crisis, the resignation of the minister of environment, and an accounting for political corruption in the country.[39] The crisis led to widespread demonstrations in July and August 2015 in which police used excessive force against protesters.[40] As an interim measure, the government responded by moving the waste out of Beirut and into its peripheries.[41] The cabinet adopted a temporary waste management plan in March 2016, focusing on Beirut and the districts of Keserwan, Metn, Baabda, Aley, and Choufessentially the areas that Sukleen and Sukomi had serviced under the emergency plan since the 1990s
A proposed reform to China's most important tobacco control group is expected to significantly reduce the influence of 'big tobacco' in policy making, as the country comes to terms with its dangerous cigarette addiction
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There is also growing pressure on policymakers to soften the impact of food and energy inflation with temporary tax and tariff cuts and consumption subsidies, measures that will need to be offset by other fiscal responses to fill budget holes
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