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World
No Tobacco Day 2010
 On 31st May, World No Tobacco Day 2010, WHO will focus on the harmful effects
of tobacco marketing towards women and girls. The theme this year is
"Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women". WHO is highlighting the need for the
Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to ban all
tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in accordance with their
constitutions or constitutional principles. The
WHO Framework Convention expresses alarm at "the increase in smoking
and other forms of tobacco consumption by women and young girls
worldwide".
Although
the World No Tobacco Day 2010 campaign will focus on tobacco marketing for
women, it will also take into account the need to protect boys and men from
the tobacco companies' tactics. It is important that tobacco control
policies recognize and take into account gender norms, differences and
responses to tobacco in order to reduce tobacco use and improve the health
of men and women worldwide. The WHO Framework Convention recognizes the
need for gender-specific tobacco control strategies, as well as for the
full participation of women at all levels of tobacco control policy-making
and implementation of tobacco control measures
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Ag RD Releasing Brief Profile on Gender & Tobacco with emphasis
on marketing to women
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Observation of WNTD 2010 in SEARO
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SEARO Posters on WNTD 2010
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WHO Director-General has awarded WNTD 2010 Awards to following dignitaries in the South-East
Asia Region for their outstanding contributions in the area of tobacco
control:
1. Professor (Dr) Syed
Modasser Ali
Hon’ble Adviser to the Hon’ble
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Prime
Minister’s Office, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
2. Thinadhoo Regional Hospital
Island:
G.Dh. Thinadhoo / Maldives
3. Mr Laxmi
Raman Ban
Director
National
Health Education Information and Communication Centre
Ministry
of Health and Population, Government of Nepal
4. Suthat Rungruanghiranya
Asst.
Prof., Srinakharinwirot
University Medical Center, Thailand
5. Prof. Dr. Somsri Pausawasdi
Chairman,
Thai Health Professional Alliance
Against Tobacco (THAAT)
6. Mr Taweesin
Satitrattanacheewin
Editor,
Thai Post Newspaper , Bangkok
The
Regional Director congratulates all the winners of the WNTD 2010 ward most
warmly and expresses the hope that the winners would strengthen their
efforts for more and effective advocacy for comprehensive tobacco control
in their respective countries. TFI Homepage
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