WHO opens Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has opened a Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, Kampala, Uganda to build regional capacity to strengthen tobacco control interventions. The Centre is hosted by a consortium led by Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda, and is funded through a grant to WHO from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
WHO smoke-free movies report
28 September 2011 -- The WHO smoke-free movies report calls upon all countries to enact enforceable policies that would severely restrict depictions of smoking in movies. This updated second edition of the report includes new and extensive information on what countries are doing to curb smoking in movies, as well as estimates on governmental subsidies to movies that depict smoking.
World No Tobacco Day 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) selects "tobacco industry interference" as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Thursday, 31 May 2012.
WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011
WHO has launched the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011, the third in a series of periodic reports about the extent and character of the epidemic and measures to stop it. The report presents the latest global and country data on the prevalence of tobacco use and on the impact of the package of demand-reduction measures known by their acronym MPOWER. The report has a particular focus on the importance of large graphic health warnings on tobacco packages and of anti-tobacco mass media campaigns.
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The world's solution
174Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
See the list of PartiesNoncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
63%of all deaths are caused by NCDs, for which tobacco use is one of the greatest risk factors
WHO global status report on NCDsTobacco's toll
> 600 000 people die each year from exposure to second-hand smoke
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