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Jump to full article: China Daily (cn), 2008-02-04
Author: Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)
Intro: Save the children from second-hand smoke and cancer. That is what the World Health Organization (WHO) wants the grown-ups to do today - World Cancer Day. The year-long smoke-free childhood campaign is the first global initiative of its kind.
WHO has joined the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), a global consortium of cancer-fighting organizations, in the initiative and given it a slogan: "I love my smoke-free childhood".
A man ignoring a little girl's presence enjoys a puff in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province. Such acts, say WHO, make children more vulnerable to second-hand smoke. [Asianewsphoto]
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