World Heart Federation Urges Global Tobacco Reduction
Asian Scientist (Sep. 16, 2013) – At the Tobacco End Game conference in New Delhi, India last week, The World Heart Federation called on countries worldwide to follow the example set by nations such as Finland, New Zealand, and Scotland to set a target year to end tobacco use in their populations.
Ending tobacco use in this sense means reducing population smoking levels to five percent or below, as well as implementing further measures in the international tobacco control treaty ‘The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.’
Tobacco use is one of the main risk factors for heart disease and causes millions of premature deaths each year worldwide. Despite this, tobacco companies continue to market their product and are particularly active in low-income and middle-income nations where tobacco control measures are not as strong as in many high-income countries.
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