WHO Urges Countries To Prevent a Tobacco Epidemic Among Women and Girls

World Health Organization
2001-06-11

Stop women from smoking before it�s too late.

The following is taken from a press release submitted by the World Health Organization on May 30, 2001:

�If countries don�t implement serious measures soon, tobacco-related deaths among women are going to increase substantially. Exposure to second-hand smoke and aggressive tobacco marketing and promotion are among the factors leading to a potential epidemic of tobacco-related diseases among women, said the World Health Organization today.

Countries must adopt a wide range of tobacco control measures, including bans on public smoking, and bans on tobacco marketing and promotion if they want to avert this epidemic, according to WHO.�

To read the full-text of this article, please visit http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2001/en/pr2001-27.html.