This is the VOA Special English Development Report. World No Tobacco Day is celebrated each thirty-first of May. The observance is meant to bring attention to the growing use of tobacco and its deadly effects. The World Health Assembly established th...
BEIJING, May 31 -- China will report its progress on tobacco（香烟） control to the member conference(联盟) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) next year, but many experts say that there is still a lot to be done. China is...
If you are a smoker who has tried and failed to stop smoking, you are not alone. Like millions of American tobacco smokers, President Barack Obama is trying to kick the habit. After his first routine medical checkup since taking office, the president...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 May 2008 The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to ban all tobacco advertising. The aim is to protect the world's youth from becoming addicted to a product WHO says could cause one billion premature deaths...
By Carol Pearson Washington 07 May 2008 The World Health Organization expects the number of women who smoke to triple over the next generation, if current trends continue. As a result, it expects more than 200 million women to die from tobacco induce...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 12 February 2008 The World Health Organization completed its first-ever global report on tobacco control. The grim statistics show that unless governments get more involved, the number of tobacco users will continue to...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 February 2008 The World Health Organization is calling for all countries to dramatically increase efforts to prevent premature deaths from tobacco-related illnesses. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Gene...
By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 22 January 2007 watch Nicotine Potency report The U.S. tobacco industry is under fire again from health experts who claim manufacturers boosted levels of nicotine in cigarettes over a seven-year period. Details of a n...
By Craig Fitzpatrick Calvert County, Maryland 06 February 2006 watch Tobacco Farmers report In recent months, several countries in Europe have banned cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, somet...
HEALTH REPORT - July 31, 2002: Tobacco and Cancer By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A recent report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer says the dangers...
