Daily ArchiveWednesday, February 13th, 2008
CiglessBot 13 Feb 2008 11:33 pm
Tobacco May Kill 1 Billion in This Century, WHO Says
Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in this century, a 10-fold increase over the past 100 years, unless governments in poor nations raise taxes on consumption and mandate health warnings, the World Health Organization said.
No country fully implements these most important tobacco- control measures, according to a 330-page report released today by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Geneva-based UN agency. Bloomberg, who helped fund the study, joined WHO Director-General Margaret Chan at a news conference in New York to discuss the findings.
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