Addictive, Lethal Consumer Product Will Kill 7 million people in 2018
Summary
Profiting from cigarettes, an addictive and lethal product, amounts to a human rights violation requiring a more robust response from governments. The public health community must demand a regulatory response that is proportional to the harm cigarettes cause to end deaths from smoking as well as reduce nicotine addiction. Ending the tobacco epidemic will require an accelerated and comprehensive implementation of the FCTC, in addition to new and innovative ways to reduce current smoking levels. Ending the completely preventable tobacco epidemic is a human rights and development challenge that the world CAN overcome this century. Because tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, ASH supports bold solutions proportionate to the magnitude of the problem.
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