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NEW #NoTobacco report: 5 billion people today live in countries that have introduced measures incl.:
🚭complete smoking bans,
🚭large graphic warnings on packaging and
🚭other effective tobacco control measures
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#NoTobacco interventions save lives & 💸 from averted 🏥 expenditure:
•Monitor 🚬 use & prevention policies
•Protect people from 🚬
•Offer help to quit 🚬
•Warn people about the dangers of 🚬
•Enforce bans on 🚬 advertising, promotion & sponsorship
•Raise 🚬 taxes

NEW #NoTobacco report:
Over 1/2 of the 🌏🌍🌎’s population benefit from large graphic health warnings featuring all @FCTCofficial recommended characteristics
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Only 1 in 5 people are protected from smoking in indoor public and workplaces.
ONLY complete indoor smoke-free 🚭 environments fully protect people from second-hand 🚬smoke. bit.ly/2OjnVwW

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Complete bans on
🚬 ADVERTISING,
🚬 PROMOTION &
🚬 SPONSORSHIP
are needed to fight big tobacco!

It's time for #NoTobacco for everyone, everywhere!

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DYK: 3 in 5 🚬 users want to quit, but only 4% those who try to quit without help succeed.
With proven help they can more than double their chances of quitting bit.ly/2OjnVwW

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1 in 3 people have access to comprehensive support to quit smoking 🚭
Access to #NoTobacco cessation services doubles their chances of quitting
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@FCTCofficial @WHOAFRO @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOWPRO Tobacco cessation services include:
-National toll-free quit lines
-“mCessation” services to reach larger populations via 📱
-Counselling by #PrimaryHealthCare 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
-Cost-covered nicotine replacement therapy

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@FCTCofficial @WHOAFRO @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOWPRO NEW #NoTobacco🚭 report:

2⃣0⃣1⃣8⃣: 2.4 billion people live in countries that provide comprehensive 🚬 cessation services

2⃣0⃣0⃣7⃣: 0.4 billion

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@FCTCofficial @WHOAFRO @WHO_Europe @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOWPRO There are still over 1 BILLION smokers in the 🌎🌍🌏, around 80% of whom live in low- & middle-income countries.

🚬 use has declined in most countries, but population growth means the total number of people using 🚬 has remained stubbornly high. #NoTobacco 🚭