"STOP" is a new non-governmental organization which will fight against tobacco, with a budget of $ 20 million over three years, its main mission will be to denounce the practices of the tobacco industry.
"PROTECT CONSUMERS AGAINST THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY"
The Billionaire Foundation and former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg Tuesday unveiled the names of organizations chosen to lead STOP, an NGO with 20 millions of dollars over three years, charged with denouncing deceptive practices From the tobacco industry.
The University of Bath (UK), the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (Thailand) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Paris) will lead “ collectively a new global tobacco industry watch group: STOP (Stop Tobacco Organizations and Products)"
This group will publish investigative reports detailing misleading strategies Of the tobacco industry and provide tools and training materials to low- and middle-income countries to combat its influence.
« STOP will protect consumers by shedding light on sneaky maneuvers of the tobacco industry, including marketing targeting children“Says Michael Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The foundation of the former mayor of New York, Bloomberg Philanthropies, has committed nearly a billion dollars since 2007 to fight against smoking in the world, said the latter.
« The tobacco industry is a major obstacle to the global fight against cancer and heart disease", Comments the Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement from the foundation.
Michael Bloomberg, ex-smoker, had announced this project on the occasion of the 17th World Conference "Tobacco or health" in March in Cape Town, South Africa.
Almost 80% of the world's billion smokers live in low- and middle-income countries, according to the WHO. The tobacco epidemic kills more than 7 million people each year, according to this United Nations body.
Source : Sciencesetavenir.fr/
