Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a new grant of $360 million to global anti-tobacco efforts.<\/p>\n
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The grant supports evidence-based policies to curb tobacco use and works to increase awareness of the dangers of tobacco in low and middle-income countries, it said in a statement on Monday from New York.<\/p>\n
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The new round of funding raises Bloomberg\u2019s total giving on this public health initiative to nearly $1 billion and builds on ten years of support for the implementation of tobacco control laws and policies around the world through the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.<\/p>\n
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To date the initiative has successfully supported 59 countries including Bangladesh in passing laws or policies, reaching nearly 3.5 billion people and saving an estimated 30 million lives.<\/p>\n
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The additional funds will enable tobacco control advocates and public health officials to expand and accelerate effective \u2018MPOWER\u2019 policy strategies to Monitor tobacco use, protect the public with smoke-free laws, offer help to quit smoking, warn about the dangers of tobacco use through pack labels and public awareness campaigns, enforce advertising bans, and raise taxes on tobacco.<\/p>\n
The funds will go towards holding the tobacco industry accountable and deepening efforts on raising the price of tobacco products.<\/p>\n
\u201cReducing tobacco use is one of our greatest opportunities to save lives and prevent suffering, because we know that strong policies really do make a difference,\u201d Michael Bloomberg said while announcing the new grant.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSince we began working ten years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales of cigarettes have declined after a century of steadily increasing,\u201d the former New York mayor said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe tide is turning on tobacco, but we still have a long way to go \u2013 especially in low- and middle-income countries that are home to 75% of the world\u2019s smokers and where tobacco companies are working harder than ever to find new customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tobacco use is a significant contributor to life-threatening, noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease and stroke.<\/p>\n
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As the recently appointed World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and a strong advocate for tobacco control, Michael R Bloomberg\u2019s leadership aims to help governments address both tobacco control and prevent premature deaths related to tobacco use.<\/p>\n
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The NCDs account for 68 percent of global deaths outpacing deaths associated with other global killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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