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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2023

GS Paper 2  Syllabus: Social Justice, Health   Source: IE, IE  Context: The new WHO report on tobacco control highlights global progress, including the implementation of MPOWER measures.   What is the MPOWER measure? MPOWER measures are tobacco control strategies developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008. They include: M=Monitor tobacco use P=Protect …

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Insights into Editorial: Of lungs, trees and sin stocks

  Context: 31st May is observed as ‘World No Tobacco Day’ every year to spread awareness around the deadly effects of tobacco consumption. The Member States of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. In …

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