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06/01/2012
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The smoke is second only in number of deaths due to hypertension
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the use of tobacco products is the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in ten deaths reported among adults. The smoke is second only in number of deaths due to hypertension.
This year's theme is Tobacco Industry Interference. The goal is to expose and combat attempts considered by WHO as "brazen and increasingly aggressive" to undermine efforts to control substance.
One of the critical approach, for example, action to stop the marketing of health warnings that illustrate the packaging of cigarettes. The companies, according to WHO, countries have processed, using as an argument bilateral investment treaties and claiming the images and words affect the right to use legally registered trademarks.
Another problem cited by the entity treats the attempts, also by the tobacco industry, to do away with laws that prohibit smoking in enclosed public places and restrict advertising of products derived from the substance.
The smoke is considered by the WHO as a leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. However, the scenario outlined by the agency is a global epidemic since tobacco kill nearly 6 million people every year - over 600,000 of them are passive smokers.
"Unless we take action, tobacco will kill more than 8 million people (per year) by 2030, more than 80% in low and middle income countries," WHO said in a statement.
Source: R7 News
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