World No Tobacco Day 2012
Tobacco industry interference is the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, which takes place on 31 May 2012.The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine global tobacco control efforts.
WHO welcomes Bloomberg donation to global tobacco control
27 March 2012 - The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the announcement that Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, will contribute US$220 million to the Bloomberg Initiative for the global fight against tobacco.
Chan to world: stand with Australia
22 March 2012 -- WHO's Director-General applauds Australia’s determination in fighting tobacco industry intimidation. Dr Margaret Chan today urged the world to “stand shoulder to shoulder” against the tobacco industry’s attempts to overturn Australia’s new path breaking tobacco control law.
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.
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The world's solution
175Parties 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
Read the tobacco fact sheet
