For 10 years the fight against smoking intensifies. 4.7 billion people, or 63% of the world’s population, are protected by measures such as picture warnings or smoke-free public places, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization. But tobacco manufacturers are still fighting to promote their activity, which causes more than seven million deaths every year.
The fight against smoking is intensifying compared to 2007, when only 1 billion people and 15% of the population were protected. The figure has now quadrupled: 4.7 billion people, or 63% of the world’s population, are covered by at least one global measure of tobacco control. But governments should not stop there. Because one in 10 deaths in the world is due to smoking.
“Governments around the world should not waste time integrating all the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control into their national tobacco control programs and policies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. “They must also take authoritarian action against the illicit tobacco trade, which is exacerbating the global tobacco epidemic and the health and socio-economic consequences.”
“MPOWER” measures
Today, 4.7 billion people are protected by at least one “best practice” measure in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, 3.6 billion more than in 2007 according to the report.
Strategies to support the application of demand reduction measures in the Framework Convention, such as the “MPOWER” measures, have saved millions of people from premature death and saved hundreds of billions of dollars. over the past 10 years. MPOWER was set up in 2008 to facilitate government action on 6 control strategies in accordance with the Framework Convention:
(Monitor) monitor tobacco consumption and prevention policies;
(Protect) protect the population against tobacco smoke;
(Offer) offer help to those who want to quit smoking;
(Warn) warn of the wrongdoing of smoking ;
(Enforce) enforce the ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship;
(Raise) raise tobacco taxes.
“More than 80% of the 40 million premature deaths per year occur in the poorest and middle-income countries,” recalls the WHO.
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