CEO Perspective

By failing to take swift action before now to regulate these products, policy makers have allowed e-cigarette companies to mislead consumers about the health benefits of their products and hook a new generation of America’s kids and teens...[.]

Mr. Bloomberg has long expressed serious concerns about e-cigarettes and their impact on youth - concerns that we have shared. These concerns have proved to be justified.

This forum shows that we have much more recognition than ever before of the human rights dimensions of tobacco control.

For millions of people addicted to tobacco, the tobacco industry remains one of the main obstacles to improving their standard of health.

It is entirely unacceptable that every year 1.6 million people die from a disease that we have been able to treat since the 1940s.

With average American life expectancy falling, it is all the more important to invest more, not less, in the life-saving work of CDC.

I write in Devex about seven issues and trends that will be critical to shaping the conversation on NCDs.

Michael R. Bloomberg has dedicated his life to big ideas and seeing these through to measurable accomplishments.

For too long the tobacco industry has used claims about illicit trade to deter governments from implementing tobacco control policies.

The following speech was given at the opening of the 3rd Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Tobacco Control and Prevention of NCDs.