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23 WHO REPORT ON THE GLOBAL tobacco EPIDEMIC, 2008 MPOWER : Six policies to reverse the tobacco epidemicThe tobacco epidemic is preventable. Hundreds of millions of people do not have to die this century from tobacco -related illness but only if the leaders of governments and civil society take urgent action is helping countries fight tobacco use and the tobacco industry s marketing of its deadly product. In May 2003, the WHO World Health Assembly unanimously adopted the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco Control, one of the United Nations most widely embraced treaties and the World s first against tobacco in order to galvanize action at the global and country level against the tobacco epidemic. This treaty provides the context for effective policy interventions to neutralize this killer of millions of people each around the globe have begun to recognize that tobacco use is an epidemic that can and must be confronted and stopped.

28 WHO REPORT ON THE GLOBAL TOBACCO EPIDEMIC, 2008 Raise children in smoke-free environments Characteristics of effective smoke-free policies Complete prohibition of smoking in all indoor environments is the only intervention that

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