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Addiction Medicine
World No Tobacco Day: Global Organizations Join Forces To Break the Tobacco Marketing Net and Help Children Grow Up Smoke-Free
June 13th, 2008
On World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) joins the World Health Organization in calling for a comprehensive ban on all forms of advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products. Globally, most smokers start smoking before the age of 18. Almost one fourth begin before they are ten. The younger children are when they first try smoking, the more likely they are to become regular tobacco users and the less likely they are to quit. Advertising is a net deliberately set by the tobacco industry to entrap them into addiction. "It's time to break the tobacco marketing net and set our children...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-06-13)
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