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Third Edition, published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, estimates that tobacco use kills some six million people each year- more than a third of whom will die from cancer- and drains US$500 billion annually from global economies.

The two-year $3 million grant, which was awarded to Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, is to train assistant medical officers (AMOS), upgrade health centers, provide solar electricity, improve system-wide water supplies, and establish mechanisms for safe processing and transport of blood.

Egypt's Ministry of Health & Population launched a new mass media campaign that visually depicts how smoking creates deposits of fat that clog human arteries.

Aliança de Controle do Tabagismo (ACT) will launch a new mass media campaign to support the implementation of a new smoke‐free law in Sao Paulo this September.

The campaign supports the second stage of Turkey's 100% smoke-free law, which bans smoking in restaurants, cafes and teahouses beginning July 19.

Users place the altered images on a generic pack of cigarettes and share them. The application, named Pack Head, is intended to raise awareness and support for graphic pack warnings, which are more effective at communicating the harms of smoking than standard text.

The first results of a survey that shows 52% of Metro Manila citizens are exposed to second-hand smoke every day in workplaces, restaurants and other public spaces.

The nationwide campaign, called ‘Sponge,' is being aired across 40 TV and 28 radio channels until July 2009 in five languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarti and Bengali.

On World No Tobacco Day, we are partnering with government health ministries in China and India to launch new tobacco counter‐marketing campaigns in those countries, where the largest populations of smokers in the world reside.

A post-campaign survey showed the number of people who reported they would buy cigarettes as gifts decreased from 45% to 24% in Beijing and from 23% to 12% in Guangzhou after airing the public service advertisement.