WHO’s new technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration shows countries ways to cut down on over US$1.4 trillion in health expenditures and lost productivity due to tobacco use worldwide. Improved tobacco taxation policies can also be a key component of building back better after COVID-19, where countries need additional resources to respond and to finance… Continue reading US$ 1.4 trillion lost every year to tobacco use
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Progress made in fight against tobacco: WHO
Many governments are making progress in the fight against tobacco, with 5 billion people today living in countries that have introduced smoking bans, graphic warnings on packaging and other effective tobacco control measures – four times more people than a decade ago. The seventh WHO Report still shows many countries are still not adequately implementing… Continue reading Progress made in fight against tobacco: WHO
Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco
Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, University of Sydney and Becky Freeman, University of Sydney The world’s second-largest market for tobacco after China, Indonesia is home to 100 million smokers. Smoking kills more than 200,000 Indonesians a year. The death threat also looms over its young generation. A fifth of Indonesians between 13 and 15 years old… Continue reading Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco
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