Pakistan is one of 146 countries that have ratified the global tobacco treaty. By taking this measure the country is making a great step forward in protecting the health and lives of its citizens from the tobacco epidemic. Many countries around the world are seeing an increase is disease and death related to tobacco smoking. Hopefully Pakistan's example will be … [Read more...] about Pakistan Takes Steps Toward Preventing a Tobacco Epidemic
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Protection Needed From Secondhand Smoke
"The evidence is clear. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke," "Many countries have already taken action. I urge all countries that have not yet done so to take this immediate and important step to protect the health of all by passing laws requiring all indoor workplaces and public places to be 100% smoke-free." ~WHO Director-General, Dr … [Read more...] about Protection Needed From Secondhand Smoke
Is It Really Worth Dying Over?
Since the 1957 report suggested a link between smoking and lung cancer, the connection has been firmly established. Lung cancer now kills 20,000 people every year and health experts predict that lifetime smokers have a fifty percent chance of dying of a smoking-related illness in middle-age. It is also been established that tobacco smoking causes at least twenty-five … [Read more...] about Is It Really Worth Dying Over?
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