Health advocates seek reforms to combat Indonesian men's high smoking rates

Hotib practices speaking. A cancer diagnosis led to his larynx being removed after smoking for almost four-decades. Olivia Herlinda from the public health nongovernment organization Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives. The tobacco industry widely promotes itself in Indonesia with billboards on busy roadways and television advertising. Indonesian public health advocates are calling for higher taxes on tobacco products including cigarettes. Indonesia is one of only 13 countries that are not parties to the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Hotib is practicing his speech. Repeating the letters from his therapist "A-E-I-O-U."