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We are disappointed that the Indian Government has deferred by six months the implementation of pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging.

Among the tools on display will be a Tobacco Control Mass Media Resource Kit, which is designed to help campaign development. In conference sessions, WLF will discuss recent television advertisements made in China, India, Turkey and Mexico as part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.

The $440,000 grant will be used to bring lung health experts from low- and middle-income countries to the 2008 and 2009 Union World Conferences on Lung Health hosted by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

The government has acted responsibly and admirably to protect citizens despite the intense pressure of the tobacco industry to stop the right of citizens to breathe clean air.

The US Government's recently announced expansion of PEPFAR - the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is a welcome and important contribution to greatly improve the lives of millions of people living with AIDS around the world.

The $500 million commitment announced today by Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates to prevent tobacco related deaths, is an historic milestone in addressing the world's most preventable public health crisis.

One hundred percent of the money will directly fund comprehensive asthma treatment in Kenya including diagnosis, medicine, inhalers and case management.

The video, which can be translated into dozens of languages, is available license-free to promote awareness of the impact tobacco youth marketing has on public health.

In January 2008, Turkey approved a country-wide smoke-free law that prohibits smoking inside enclosed public places.

By joining the growing number of world nations (168) that support the FCTC, Russia has committed to taking strong measures to confront its growing tobacco epidemic. Approximately 400,000 Russians die of smoking-related illnesses every year.