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The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday in Abuja raised alarm over the growing number of youths hooked on to tobacco.
"More than 150 million adolescents use tobacco and 80 percent of these started before the age of 18," said Dr Elizabeth Mason, WHO Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development.
Mason spoke at an international conference on investing in young people.
"If the pattern of tobacco use seen today continues, a lifetime of tobacco use would result in the death of 250 million people alive today, most of them in developing countries,'' she said.
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Sunday welcomed the new global tobacco report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which indicates that consumption of cigarettes has declined in the country.
"This is a significant progress for a developing country like South Africa if you consider the WHO report's observation that only five percent of the world's population live in countries that protect their population with any one of the key measures that reduce smoking rates."
"We have to sustain and build from these gains if we are to reduce the high levels of morbidity and mortality related to tobacco use to which WHO puts one in every 10 deaths worldwide," said Tshabalala-Msimang.
The WHO report stated that higher taxes were especially important for deterring tobacco use among the young and the poor, who would benefit most from a decrease in consumption. . . .
The report gives South Africa seven out of 10 for enforcement of bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship relating to tobacco and five out of 10 for protecting people from tobacco smoke through smoke-free environments.
South Africa was also found to be doing well in providing counselling and treatment for tobacco dependence and in allocation of resources for tobacco prevention.
Tshabalala-Msimang said the report gives us more reasons to celebrate the national Healthy Lifestyle Day as the campaign focuses on tobacco control
Smoking is a no-no in many households, but that is not so faithfully resolved in some.
So conscientious non-smokers are ardently for the implementation and enforcement of smoking bans. We should not be discouraged by relatives who make a pushing smokehouse of our dwellings and we should pray that they should take into consideration the well-being of other members of the household.
Ms. Soe Nyunt ,World Health Organization representative in the Philippines, recently presented the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 which shows that tobacco already kills 5.4 million people a year . . .
On the institutional level, acting on the recommendation of Betty Lou S. Penera, Philippine Information Agency staff director for planning and communication research, who cited agreements made at a multi-sectoral planning workshop, Secretary Conrado A. Limcaoco Jr. issued a memorandum to all regional directors and staff directors and the rank and file, to fully implement RA 9211. The memo said that, to comply with the law, the PIA building is to be declared a Smoke-Free building.
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The WHO says tobacco causes more than five million deaths a year
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The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of deaths linked to tobacco use. The six policies are known as MPOWER, spelled M-P-O-W-E-R.
世界卫生组织官员日前在约旦首都安曼公布了一项关于全球烟草控制情况的报告，呼吁各国政府执行加强烟草控制的６项战略。
世卫总干事陈冯富珍同纽约市长彭博近日联合召开记者会发表报告，公布了世界卫生组织的最新警告，如果各国政府和社会不加强对烟草销售的控制，本世纪内全球可能有10亿人因烟害而死亡。
Geneva, home to the United Nations' European headquarters and scores of banks catering to the very rich, will ban smoking in public places following a referendum on Sunday, the Swiss news agency ATS said.
Some 79 percent of voters in Switzerland's second-largest city supported the prohibition, which the local government said it would quickly put in place, ATS said. . . .
Geneva will be the sixth of the Alpine country's 26 cantons to institute a ban on smoking in public places.
Here's one more thing that seems to come with economic development: smoking. According to The Wall Street Journal, big tobacco companies are aiming squarely at developing countries, where populations are increasing and smoking is a status symbol. . . .
Most tobacco companies, including Reynolds American (NYSE: RAI), Carolina Group (NYSE: CG), and Vector Group (NYSE: VGR), have done well in the bull market. If investors have worried about the health and future of tobacco companies, given our shrinking taste for tobacco here at home, a glance at global numbers may be reassuring.
Still, threats exist. For example, consider New York City mayor (and billionaire) Michael Bloomberg. He has funded, with $2 million, a World Health Organization report on how to curb smoking around the world. . . .
Tobacco investors might want to keep tabs on global smoking trends.
2月21日，卫生部——WHO奥运城市公共场所控烟项目工作研讨会在沈举行。这次会议总结和交流奥运城市2007年工作进展情况，部署和研讨2008年无烟奥运工作。
世界卫生组织总干事陈冯富珍与美国纽约市市长迈克尔・布隆博格日前共同发布《世界卫生组织全球烟草流行问题报告》。这份世界卫生组织的最新报告警告说，如果各国政府和社会不加强对烟草销售的控制，本世纪内全球可能会有10亿人因烟草危害而死亡。
吸烟有害健康是尽人皆知的常识。近日，大洋彼岸又一死亡病例向人们再次展示了烟草“杀手”的狰狞面目。据英国媒体2月8日报道，美国一个年近20岁女孩成为该国首例二手烟直接导致猝死的“牺牲品”。几乎与此同时，两份分别来自世界卫生组织（WHO）和中国新探健康发展研究中心的报告则从各自角度介绍了禁烟面临的挑战。
世界卫生组织15日在日内瓦宣布，将于2010年前制订一份《打击烟草制品非法贸易议定书》，以进一步遏制猖獗的烟草走私活动。
世界卫生组织16日在位于瑞士日内瓦的总部结束了为期六天的会议。与会的各国代表就在2010年前制订一份新的《打击烟草制品非法贸易议定书》达成共识。该议定书将进一步遏制猖獗的烟草走私活动，推动全球禁烟运动的深入开展。
Smoking can take the lives of one billion people in XXIth century, World Health Organizations forecasts. . . .
Some independent experts say, the amount of smoking men in Russia reaches 65%. Russia has the lowest cigarette prices and poorest control over its sale. There is practically no anti-cigarette advertisement. But its worth saying that major tobacco trademarks in Russia such as Philip Morris and British-American Tobacco are engaged in many social problems aimed at elimination of the consequences of smoking.