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Vital Strategies marks World No Tobacco Day with media campaigns and initiatives around the world that highlight the deadly effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke and the efforts of governments to implement proven solutions.

The lawsuit aims to recover the costs to Brazil's health system of treating 26 tobacco-related diseases over the past five years.

The Turkish Green Crescent Society has a launched a new national campaign to highlight the damage caused by tobacco companies in Turkey. The campaign is the first of its kind to associate tobacco companies with tobacco-related deaths.

Vital Strategies today expressed concern over the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve Philip Morris International’s IQOS product for sale in the United States.

The health organizations are asking Disney to require that Vice adopt a strict policy prohibiting the company and its subsidiaries from working with tobacco companies.

The month-long campaign, “Never Drink and Drive,” aims to reach the 8 million drivers in the city through television, radio, social media, billboards and in movie theaters.

New research estimates that 50 million premature deaths could be averted worldwide in the next 50 years if countries increased excise taxes to deliver a 50 percent increase in the prices of tobacco products, alcohol and sugary beverages.

José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, issued the following statement to coincide with World Health Day 2019: “Access to health care should be a universal human right, yet half the world’s population lacks essential medical services."

Air pollution causes more than 1.5 million deaths each year in South and Southeast Asia, but news and social media from a three-year period show poor public understanding of its major causes and the most promising solutions.