W.H.O. and Bloomberg Open Global Antismoking Project
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Tobacco could kill up to a billion people during the 21st century, the World Health Organization said.
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Global efforts to avoid tens of millions of preventable deaths by reducing tobacco use have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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Health Minister George Smitherman begins to roll out his crackdown plan Friday night, unveiling an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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An international health partnership aimed at directing medical assistance more effectively to some of the world's poorest countries will be launched by Gordon Brown today.
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Europe&#39;s incoming health chief has pledged to crack down on smoking, saying there is no bigger evil to be battled than cigarettes and encouraging national bans across the 25-nation EU.
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PARIS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A group of scientists, including several Nobel  laureates in medicine, are urging international institutions and  governments in the industrialised world to adopt a radical policy  against chemical pollution in order to protect human health.
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Doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit: a shot that "immunizes" them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction.
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The World Health Organization on Thursday called on governments to improve air quality in their cities, saying air pollution prematurely kills two million people a year, with more than half the deaths in developing countries.
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The government teamed up with doctors, academics and a U.S.-based drug company Wednesday to announce a campaign to reduce the number of smokers in Mexico by more than 10 percent in three years.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  expects the world's first treaty on tobacco control will take  effect by early 2005, the international body said on Wednesday.
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if only just for one day -- on the third Thursday of each November, with the hope that day could be the beginning of a journey towards a healthy, smoke-free life.
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Health groups are trying to generate momentum for legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products.
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The 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific opened in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai yesterday.
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Each year, thousands of Americans die due to tobacco use and the American Cancer Society is sponsoring the 28th annual Great American Smokeout on Thursday to give all smokers and smokeless tobacco users the opportunity to quit.
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NEW YORK - Television stations in Ghana carry a hip-hop contest sponsored by British American Tobacco. On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris&#39;s masculine image of a smoker.
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Ontarians are about to get their first look at a plan their provincial government says will be the most sweeping anti-tobacco agenda in the country.
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China, home to one in three of the world's smokers, is set to see a huge rise in its health care costs as a lack of education and the government's vested interests frustrate prevention efforts, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned.