Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015 ash April 10, 2015 E-Newsletter Tobacco and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The inclusion of tobacco control in the Sustainable Development Goals has been in the works for several years. It is due to various advocacy efforts of the...
Tobacco consumption and hypertension increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease ash June 7, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Within the framework of World No Tobacco Day, PAHO/WHO warns that these two risk factors cause the most deaths in the region. Washington, D.C., 5 June 2013 (PAHO/WHO) – Tobacco consumption increases the risk...
‘Smoking Will Kill Up to a Billion People’ ash October 29, 2012 Related News Smoking, which is described as the biggestpublic health disaster in the history of the world with its perpetrators likened to terrorists, will kill up to a billion people worldwide this century unless governmen...
China Leader’s Job at Odds With Tobacco Ties, Brookings Says ash October 26, 2012 Related News The brother of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who oversees public health, should be removed from his post as a top official in China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly to avoid conflicts of interest, a report pub...
Smokers Left Gagging by Not-So-Plain Cigarette Packets ash October 26, 2012 Related News TOOWOOMBA'S smokers have been left gagging as new not-so-plain cigarette packets start to filter into stores. A packet of Winfield Blues is no longer the colour its name would suggest - instead a sickly look...
European Commission: Will Move Ahead With Draft Revision of Tobacco Directive ash October 25, 2012 Related News BRUSSELS--The European Commission still intends to move ahead with a draft revision of the tobacco directive in the coming weeks, spokesman Olivier Bailly said Thursday, as he insisted no-one within the Europea...
FCA Video Highlights Tobacco Epidemic ash October 25, 2012 Blog A billion people will be killed by tobacco this century. It has been estimated that the tobacco industry makes approximately $6,000 for every death. This must stop! The tobacco treaty is among one of the best t...
FC Barcelona and the European Commission Join Forces to Help Millions of Europeans to Give up Smoking ash September 18, 2012 Related News FC Barcelona have reached an agreement with the European Commission to launch a campaign aimed at helping Europe’s 28 million smokers to give up tobacco "With this joint action, we aim to help football fans ...
More Resources Needed to Decrease Tobacco Dependence Prevalence ash September 17, 2012 Blog In the decade since the adoption of the FCTC, we have seen significant progress in the area of tobacco control policies that have helped decrease smoking prevalence. We have also seen increased demand in ces...
FCAP Protests Tobacco Industry-Backed Party-List Group ash September 16, 2012 Related News A NETWORK of anti-tobacco advocates is asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a party-list organization, accusing it of being a front group for the powerful tobacco industry In a letter add...
