Press Room Japan Tobacco’s $1.6 Billion Asian Acquisitions Are Bad News For Health in The Philippines and Indonesia In both countries, nearly one in five male deaths and close to one in ten female deaths (9.4 percent in the Philippines and 8.1 percent in Indonesia) are related to tobacco use. In Indonesia, over 53 million adults and more than 2 million children use tobacco each day. In the Philippines, over 15 million adults and more than half a million children use tobacco each day.
Vital Stories Vital Strategies Focuses on Pedestrian Safety in Baltimore The Vital Strategies team recently visited the Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute in Virginia, where they learned that vehicle designs are being changed to reduce injuries not just of passengers but also those outside of the vehicle, such as pedestrians.
Press Room Shameless: Guardian report reveals British American Tobacco profits in warzones through unethical and potentially illegal tactics Vital Strategies joins other tobacco control advocates in urging the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate BAT and its subsidiaries for possible violations of the anti-bribery and accounting provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Press Room Media campaign on smokeless tobacco generated more than 17 million additional quit attempts and prevented 120,000 premature deaths World’s first study to find strong economic justification for using mass media campaigns to reduce smokeless tobacco use in low-and middle-income countries.
Vital Stories Road Safety Interventions to Save Lives Conventional wisdom around road safety tends to excuse these problems as mere chance, or careless driving, while accepting the subsequent loss as inevitable. But Vital Strategies is working to change global perspectives on road safety by helping to implement a new global approach: Safe Systems.
City Health Vital Stories Public transit: unglamorous but essential for shaping healthy, equitable and sustainable cities If cities are ever going to reach their full potential as healthy places to live and engines of opportunity, while easing the pressure of human activity on the planet, public transit needs to be elevated on the global health, environment and development agendas.
Vital Stories Helping Smoke-free Policies Take Root in Vietnam In Vietnam, compliance in smoke-free areas still has its challenges. As difficult as changing policy is changing social norms.
Press Room Governments aren’t doing enough to reduce the health and economic cost of preventable lung cancer Lung cancer is the cause of 19.4 percent of all cancer deaths. It is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and second most common cause of cancer-related death in women, after breast cancer. Globally, it kills around 1.7 million people every year.
Press Room FDA’s Tobacco Plan Could Save Lives Vital Strategies has welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its intention to decrease the burden of tobacco-related harm in the USA by regulating nicotine levels and, potentially, flavorings in tobacco products.
Press Room France and Britain’s Gas and Diesel Automobile Ban: A Good Long Term Goal That Requires Near-Term, Broader Measures To Deliver Real Health Gains Vital Strategies applauds the decisions of France and the United Kingdom (UK) to prohibit the sales of gasoline and diesel powered automobiles by 2040.