Pan Ki-moon: Tobacco or causing 1 billion people to die in this century

Pan Ki-moon: Tobacco or causing 1 billion people to die in this century
Pan Ki-moon: Tobacco or causing 1 billion people to die in this century
The intersection of China News Service and the intersection of the United Nations and May 31 cable (reporter Sun Yu very) Secretary-General of the United Nations Pan Ki-moon issues a statement and claims on the 31st, the tobacco is very apt to make people get into the habit, the use of the tobacco caused about 100 million people death in the 20th century. If we do not take action, it may cause up to 1 billion deaths in this century. The same day is " World No Smoking Day " ,Pan Ki-moon claims in the statement, through controlling the tobacco, we can make considerable progress in preventing and curing a lot of chronic disease, including cancer and heart disease. Pan Ki-moon says, the best tool that we can use now is World Health Organization's " the tobacco control the frame convention ". This convention came into force since 2003, more than 170 countries became the contracting party, made it become one of the treaties accepted most rapidly in history of the United Nations already. Pan Ki-moon says, the clause that various countries are using this convention protects their citizens, including through improving price and tax revenue, advertisement of restraining from and support,demand in if you can't print off, warn on packinging, it is forbidden to carry on the means of selling etc. to minors, reduce the demand for the tobacco. These countries are sending out a clear information, namely the use of the tobacco will make us more and more terrible - -No matter are all like this in health or economy. On the World No Smoking Day of this year, World Health Organization is while praising and controlling the tobacco to use respect achievement, emphasize each side want, observe organization these in an all-round way " the tobacco controls the frame convention ". The person in charge of the action project wears stupid Ga to say smokelessly World Health Organization on the 31st, tobacco use cause heart disease, apoplexy, cancer, the intersection of pulmonary emphysema and the non- infective the intersection of disease and prevailing most loud factor one of; The tobacco user up to half will die of disease correlated to tobacco finally. Wear stupid Ga, say this year, tobacco prevail, it seizes to be almost 6 million life of people, include about 600,000 is not the smoker, these are not that smokers get killed because of touching second hand smoke. By 2030, the tobacco can make 8 million people die every year.


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