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The national campaign of the Serbian Health Ministry and the Institute "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut", focused on consequences of the passive smoking, has commenced today and will last for a year, it was announced at the press conference. Djuro Malobabic has more.
The campaign is directed at all social categories and will be accompanied by promotional and printed material, ads, TV spots, jingles, billboards and branded buses. The action will be carried out in two parts – the first one will be under the slogan "Tobacco smoke is a serial killer " by August, while the latter part of 2009 will be marked by the motto "Get tobacco smoke out". Health Minister Prof. Dr Tomica Milosavljevic said that a new law is being prepared on ban of smoking in closed premises, which envisages gradual banning of smoking in restaurants that will primarily protect health of the employees and non-smoking visitors.
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About 57,000 people die for using tobacco every year in the country, while 3.62 lakh become infected.
National Professor Dr MR Khan yesterday informed this while inaugurating a eight-day workshop on 'Training of NGO watchdogs to prevent violation of tobacco control law' in the city.
He said joint efforts between the government and the non-government organisations (NGOs) is necessary to speed up the tobacco control movement.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) organised the workshop in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) at its auditorium in the city.
Each year on 4 February, WHO joins with the sponsoring International Union Against Cancer to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients are recurring themes.
By 2010, cancer will be the leading killer in the world, surpassing heart disease, causing more deaths than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Unless new treatments are found, there could be 27 million people with cancer by 2030, and 17 million cancer deaths annually. And, there could be 75 million people living with cancer within five years after diagnosis, according to a new report, 2008 World Cancer Report, released Tuesday by the World Health Organization.
"The burden of cancer is shifting from developed countries to developing nations," Dr. Otis Webb Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said during a teleconference. "And with a growing and aging population, we must take steps to address this problem now."
Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday.
Globally, an estimated 12.4 million people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year and 7.6 million people will die, the U.N. World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said in a report.
"The global cancer burden doubled in the last 30 years of the 20th century, and it is estimated that this will double again between 2000 and 2020 and nearly triple by 2030," according to the report.
By 2030, 26.4 million people a year may be diagnosed with cancer, with 17 million people dying from it, the report forecast. . . . "There are more deaths in the world from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined," Boyle said.
-- New cases of cancer are forecast to rise by 1 percent per year, with larger increases in China, Russia and India. Cancer is becoming an increasing burden in poor countries.
-- In 2008, 12.4 million new cases of cancer (6.7 million men and 5.8 million women) will be diagnosed.
-- 7.6 million people will die of cancer (4.3 million men and 3.3 million women) from cancer in 2008.
Cancer will surpass heart disease as the world's number one killer by 2010, with poorer countries set to suffer most from the trend due to smoking, high-fat diets and other factors, international health experts warned Tuesday.
Some 12 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year and more than seven million people will die from the disease, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report.
A projected 38 percent population increase in less developed countries between 2008 and 2030 was identified among several demographic changes underlying these trends.
The report estimates that between 20 and 26 million new cancer diagnoses will be made in 2030, with between 13 and 17 million cancer-related deaths.
"The rapid increase in the global cancer burden represents a real challenge for health systems worldwide," Peter Boyle, director of the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, said in a statement introducing the report.
The World Health Organization released its 2008 World Cancer Report Tuesday, and the numbers show that developing countries that adopt increasingly Westernized lifestyles and tobacco use are catching up to developed nations in the number of cancer deaths annually.
By 2010 cancer will surpass heart disease, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as the leading killer in the world.
By 2030 the global cancer deaths are predicted to double. The last time a doubling of cancer rates was seen was between 1975 and 2000.
The report projects that the number of new cancer cases and deaths could more than double in the next twenty years to 27 million people with cancer and 17 million deaths annually.
The burden of cancer is shifting to developing countries such as India, China and Russia, where increasingly a Western lifestyle of smoking, fast and fatty foods and no exercise. . . .
The export of cigarettes to developing nations, to offset reduced sales in the U.S., are expected to have an impact from the “smoking epidemic” that has yet to been seen.
''How can we promote an addictive product that we know causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease, birth defects and other illnesses?'' asked Dr. Raymond Scalettar, member of the board of trustees of the American Medical Association criticizing the Bush Administration’s trade policy of fostering exports by U.S. tobacco companies in 1989. ''This is not an issue of free trade. It is an issue of public health policy and law.''
Tobacco use and the spread of Westernized lifestyles are the two main factors pushing up cancer death figures in developing countries globally, according to a new report issued by IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer). The Agency predicts that the total number of annual cancer deaths globally will double within the next twenty years.
By 2010, says IARC, the total number of worldwide cancer deaths will overtake cardiovascular and heart disease deaths.
According to the report:
-- In 2030 there will be 27 million new cases of cancer and 17 million cancer deaths. (In 2007 there were 12 new cancer cases and about 8 million cancer deaths.)
-- New cancer cases are expected to grow by 1% each year over the next two decades
-- The number of cancer deaths is expected to grow by 1% each year over the next two decades
-- The largest increase in new cancer cases and total annual cancer deaths are expected to rise the fastest in Russia, India and China.
-- Currently chronic infection is the leading cause of cancer in developing countries. Smoking, obesity, as well as other Western lifestyle factors will eventually become the leading causes of cancer in those countries within the next twenty years.
The global cancer burden doubled during the period 1975-2000. Experts say it will double again by 2020, and triple ten years after that.
Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday.
Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be a huge reason for the shift, particularly in China and India, where 40 percent of the world's smokers now live.
So is better diagnosing of cancer, along with the downward trend in infectious diseases that used to be the world's leading killers.
Cancer diagnoses around the world have steadily been rising and are expected to hit 12 million this year. Global cancer deaths are expected to reach 7 million, according to the new report by the World Health Organization.
An annual rise of 1 percent in cases and deaths is expected — with even larger increases in China, Russia and India. That means new cancer cases will likely mushroom to 27 million annually by 2030, with deaths hitting 17 million.
Underlying all this is an expected expansion of the world's population — there will be more people around to get cancer.
Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, health experts warned today.
Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be the main reason for the shift, particularly in China and India, where 40 per cent of the world's smokers now live.
According to the new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), cancer diagnoses around the world have been rising steadily and are expected to hit 12million this year.
Rising tobacco use in developing countries will see cancer overtake heart disease as the world's biggest killer, the World Health Organisation report
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WHO welcomes the consensus decision of the United Nations General Assembly to ban smoking and tobacco sales at UN headquarters in New York.
"The General Assembly deserves congratulations for protecting the health of delegates, employees and visitors," said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. "Fewer of them will sicken and die prematurely as a result of today's action."
The resolution passed by the General Assembly on 3 November 2008 imposes "a complete ban" on indoor smoking and tobacco sales. . . .
"By banning smoking and the sale of tobacco products on UN premises, the Member States set a tremendous example," Dr Chan said. "Uruguay -- the first smoke-free country in the Americas -- deserves particular praise for sponsoring the smoke-free resolution and working long and diligently to ensure its passage."
The resolution is consistent with Article 8 of the WHO FCTC, which requires Parties to the Convention to protect their populations from tobacco smoke in indoor workplaces and other indoor public places. The treaty entered into force in 2005 and currently has 160 Parties.
Dr Chan also praised the United Nations Ad Hoc Interagency Task Force on Tobacco Control, which the Secretary-General established in 1999 and which formally recommended in 2006 and 2008 that the United Nations be smoke-free.
WHO recommends five policies for controlling tobacco use: smoke-free environments; support programmes for tobacco users who wish to stop; health warnings on tobacco packs; bans on the advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco; and higher taxation of tobacco.
About half of all countries in the world implement none of these five recommended policies, despite the fact that tobacco control measures are cost-effective and proven. Moreover, not more than 5% of the world’s population is fully covered by any one of these measures.