Jump to full article: Filter (hu), 2001-03-31
Author: Tibor Szilágyi / Chief Executive Officer Health 21 Hungarian Foundation
Intro: shortly after switching over to market economy health indicators worsened and reached a never experienced depth.
These years were of big successes for Big Tobacco in the region. They came from West and presented the custom of smoking as "a chic of freedom" . .
After years of experiencing the shadow side of the "best corporate citizenship" of American and Western European tobacco multinationals a new wave of tobacco control movement seems to grow up along with a core of committed, skilled tobacco control advocates. . .
Health 21 Hungarian Foundation -- founded by Mr Péter Kricsfalvi, former commissioner of public health of the Ministry of Welfare -- is pledged to design tobacco control as one of its priorities and key directions of action.
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