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“We hope “Confronting Illicit Trade in Tobacco” emboldens governments across the globe to advance global efforts to reduce illicit trade that harms health, equity, governance and government revenues.”

This World Cancer Day, we urge governments to implement proven, lifesaving policies such as taxes on unhealthy products. Without urgent action, the human and economic toll of cancer will only increase.

Public health experts from around the world have urged the World Health Organization’s Executive Board to reject the Philip Morris International-funded Foundation’s appeal to WHO to collaborate on tobacco control policies.

A groundbreaking national media campaign underway in China, featuring the harrowing testimony of a former smoker, is expected to reach more than 100 million TV viewers in the world’s largest cigarette market.

An exposé in The Guardian revealed covert financial and business links between the tobacco industry and a global network of business and economic think tanks that have played a key role in undermining tobacco control in dozens of countries.

A statement from Dr. Neil Schluger, Senior Advisor for Science, Vital Strategies on Altria’s purchase of a major stake in Juul, the company widely responsible for the explosive growth in vaping among youth in the United States.