WHO supports tobacco ad bans

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

>From the Advocacy Institute's News Summaries:


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New WHO Director General Supports Global Ban On Tobacco Advertising

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway's former prime minister, assumed
leadership of the World Health Organization (WHO) with a pledge
to support tobacco advertising bans.  At a press conference this
past Wednesday, she expressed her support for a global ban on
tobacco advertising:  "The kind of laws being put in place in
many countries will be a global model for tobacco advertising.
This has to be done in a systematic way.  We will have to
convince the governments. . . . The idea is to hamper and reduce
the spread of tobacco into new population groups . . . we have
to work on this very seriously in order to get results."

Source(s):
THE BOSTON GLOBE, (7/22/98)
   "New Chief Vows Big Reforms At Maligned WHO", Reuters, p. A14.

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