Tag: Adriana Blanco

• Friday, May 31st 2013 - 01:28 UTC

  Call for urgent total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the Americas

  

  On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling on countries throughout the Americas to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Such bans are one of the most effective ways to reduce consumption of tobacco, which kills some 1 million people every year in this hemisphere.