Annual Tobacco Deaths Headed Towards Eight Million

Source from:  tr.itsmyiq.com Aug 19, 2008 08/22/2008

Worldwide, about 5.4 million people die every year from tobacco-related diseases and that number will rise to more than eight million by 2030 if immediate steps are not taken, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 report, which was released in Bangladesh. According to an article in the country's Daily Star, the report warns, too, that if tobacco control programs are not augmented in time more than 80 per cent of the tobacco victims in 2003 will die in developing countries. The report outlined the MPOWER package, a set of six key tobacco control measures: monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies; protecting people from tobacco smoke; helping smokers to quit their habit; warning people about the dangers of tobacco; enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; and raising taxes on tobacco. Enditem