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Nicotine Science & Policy | 27 April 2014

To: Dr Margaret Chan, Director General World Health Organisation

Reducing the toll of death and disease from tobacco – tobacco harm reduction and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) We are writing in advance of important negotiations on tobacco policy later in the year at the FCTC Sixth Conference of the Parties. The work of WHO and the FCTC remains vital in reducing the intolerable toll of cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory illnesses caused by tobacco use. As WHO has stated, up to one billion preventable tobacco­‐related premature deaths are possible in the 21st Century.[...]

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2014-05-27


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