MaximsNewsNetwork: SMOKE-FREE LAWS: UN WHO: 600000 PREMATURE DEATHS EVERY YEAR!!!
MaximsNewsNetwork: 08 December 2009 - UNTV - WHO: The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic by the WHO says that only 5.4 percent of the world's population was covered by comprehensive smoke-free laws in 2008, up from 3.1 percent in 2007. The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) says that only 5.4 percent of the world's population was covered by comprehensive smoke-free laws in 2008, up from 3.1 percent in 2007. This means that 154 million more people are no longer exposed to the harms of tobacco smoke in work places, restaurants, bars and other indoor public places. Seven countries: Colombia , Djibouti , Guatemala , Mauritius , Panama , Turkey and Zambia implemented comprehensive smoke-free laws in 2008, bringing the total to seventeen. WHO chose to make smoke-free environments the focus of the report because of the harm of second-hand smoke, which causes about 600000 premature deaths per year, countless crippling and disfiguring illnesses and economic losses in the tens of billions of dollars per year. The report tracks the global tobacco epidemic, giving governments and other stakeholders a tool to see where evidence-based demand reduction interventions have been implemented and where more progress is needed. It gives country-by-country tobacco use prevalence figures as well as data about cigarette taxation, bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, support for treatment of tobacco dependence ...
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