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Campaign image will be used as a graphic health warning on tobacco packs from 2016. Smoking doubles the risk of stroke. Previous campaign recalled by 67 percent of the population.

Event recognizes the talent of students in a photo-story competition to help tobacco victims share their stories.

Global data shows that smoking doubles the risk of heart disease and stroke and is 25 times more likely to cause lung cancer

Vital Strategies' latest round of communications training in Vietnam saw more than 140 health communicators from 63 provinces come together to learn the latest in tobacco control strategic communications.

Vital Strategies has welcomed the publication of the World Health Organization’s Global Status Report on Road Safety, 2015 and congratulates Bloomberg Philanthropies for its role in supporting the publication of the report. The report reveals that there are around 1.25 million road traffic deaths every year and as many as 50 million people are injured.

Not all that long ago, the though of a tobacco-free generation was a mere pipe dream.

Data released to coincide with World Obesity Day found that without change, 177 million adults across the globe will be severely obese and in need of medical treatment by 2025.

Two-phase study incorporating three-quarters of a million Chinese citizens concludes smoking will kill one in three young men and claim two million lives every year by 2030.

The ‘carve out’ on tobacco provides protection for countries already enacting strong measures – such as Australia’s adoption of plain packaging – and reassures the other governments that they can progress with the adoption of the strong tobacco control policies.

After months of negotiations, world leaders have officially signed off on the new Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations. These 17 ambitious goals with 169 targets cover everything from improving health and wellbeing, eliminating poverty and hunger, gender equality, climate action, clean energy and water, along with economic growth.