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EDITORIAL: World No-Tobacco Day: Prevent the deaths of more than 5 million people from the effects of tobacco every year 

The theme of World No-Tobacco Day on May 31, 2009, "Tobacco Health Warnings" cautions people about nicotine as a highly addictive substance. Requiring warnings on tobacco packages is a simple, effective strategy that can vastly reduce tobacco use and save lives. If left unchecked, the lung cancer burden of tobacco will more than triple in the next 25 years.

We must help and convince current smokers to quit and prevent the tobacco industry from using its marketing techniques to lure the world's children into deadly cigarette addiction.

We have to act now to eliminate the global scourge of tobacco and save hundreds of millions of lives in the next decades.

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