WHO: the number of victims of tobacco this year will reach 6 million

May 27, 2011

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On the eve of the International No Tobacco Day, which will be celebrated on May 31 World Health Organization   It warns that the number of victims of smoking reach this year a record 6 million people, and 600,000 of them will die from passive smoking.

According to Armando Peruga , Coordinator of WHO's anti-smoking campaign, if humanity does not take any measures to improve the situation, by 2030 every year from smoking will die more than 8 million smokers. For comparison, he cited the number of victims of the 20th century, which amounted to 100 million people. WHO projects that in the case of saving the situation, the number of deaths in the 21st century will be estimated 1 billion people.

This year World No Tobacco Day   It will coincide with the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention (FCTC), which was adopted in 2003 by the International Health Assembly. Today, members of the Convention are 172 States, including and Russia has acceded to the FCTC in 2008.

All the members FCTC necessarily take responsibility for health promotion and smoking cessation, financing measures to combat addiction, providing support at the legislative level.

Meanwhile, scientists have proved, smoker's lungs change at the genetic level That becomes one of the main reasons for the increased incidence of non-communicable diseases, such as heart attack, stroke Cancer, bronchial asthma   and others. This fact is confirmed by statistics, because 62% of the number of victims have died because of these diseases.

Currently, the number of tobacco dependence in Russia is 43, 9 million adults. One of the latest methods to combat tobacco dependence was an increase in the cost of the Government of the Russian Federation excise stamps   on tobacco products.