Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, President of One Health Trust, rues that lack of sustainable access to effective antibiotics kills more people than AMR does. More people are dying from bacterial infections than from TB, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.
Tobacco industry interference in its myriad sinister forms is one of the biggest obstacles to implement the legally-binding global tobacco treaty. Unless the devious designs of Big Tobacco are thwarted and the industry is held to account legally and .
'We need food, not tobacco,' was the theme of the World No Tobacco Day 2023. The UN health agency, the World Health Organization (WHO) rightly points out that tobacco contributes to increased food insecurity. Apart from being a deadly .
Saturday, 24 April 2021, 4:25 pm
At
a time when the entire world is reeling under a severe
public health emergency, the tobacco industry is not leaving
any stone unturned to protect and expand its markets of
products that are proven to cause deadly diseases and
greenwash its dirty image (as it has blood on its hands of
over 8 million deaths every year attributed to tobacco use).
More alarmingly, tobacco is a major risk factor for several
health conditions that increase the risk of serious outcomes
if one gets infected with corona virus, including death. And
let us not forget that even before the Covid-19 pandemic,
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