© 2002 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 9, 644-646,
May 1, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
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World Health Organization Takes on ‘Tobacco Epidemic’
The fourth round of negotiations for the first-ever proposed international health treaty bogged down last month in Geneva, when delegates from more than 150 nations began haggling in earnest over the details. The impasse is not surprising, observers say, given the enormity of what this treaty, sponsored by the World Health Organization, is attempting to do—control the tobacco industry globally to reduce use of cigarettes and lessen the resulting burden of illness and death.
Use of tobacco is the single largest preventable cause of death in the world today, and the only one that has corporate sponsorship, WHO officials noted. Tobacco-related diseases, such as lung cancer, kill more than 4.2 million people annually—more than the recognized public health scourges of AIDS and malaria combined. (One tenth of those deaths, or 400,000, are in the United States.) By 2020, an estimated 8.4 million people will die each year from tobacco-related diseases,
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