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· WHO: FCTC
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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2008-06-02
Author: Tanu Jalloh Concord Times (Freetown)
Intro: On Saturday the world health agency joined local partners among them Youths Against Tobacco Smoking in Sierra Leone to process in observance of the World No Tobacco Day May 31.
National Coordinator Dr. Williams Ohaeri told Concord Times that it was disheartening to know that Sierra Leone remains the only country in the world that has neither signed nor ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty. . . .
"Half measures are not enough," said Dr Douglas Bettcher, Director of WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative added Dr Bettcher. "When one form of advertising is banned, the tobacco industry simply shifts its vast resources to another channel. We urge governments to impose a complete ban to break the tobacco marketing net," he said.
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