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Health care professional associations that personate nurses, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, midwives, and chiropractors from nearly each country have agreed to exalt a new code of leadership that examines tangible ways to edge-stone tobacco use, according to a Jan 30 2004 recently made knowns release from the World Health Organization (WHO). The associations vowed to increase and strengthen cessation programs and implement community education and advocacy programs.

Studies have shown that on the same level brief counseling from health care professionals about the dangers of smoking is a cost-effective arrangement of reducing tobacco use. In addition, health care professionals are being asked to lead by means of example by ceasing smoking and ensuring that their workplaces and public facilities are tobacco-free.

Many associations also have agreed to introduce tobacco command legislation on a national of the same height and support their governments' ratification of the WHO Framework Convention in succession Tobacco Control (FCTC). The FCTC plants standards on tobacco-related issues of the like kind as price, tax increases, illicit trade, labeling, advertising and sponsorship, and secondhand reek Since its adoption in May 2003 87 countries and the European Community have signed the FCTC and six countries have ratified it. The FCTC will become Law 90 days after 40 countries have signed and ratified it, and it will bind those countries to legislate according to its provisions.

Health Professionals to exalt a New Code of manners on Tobacco Control (news release, Geneva: World Health Organization, Jan 30 2004) http://www.who.int/media centre/releases/2004/pr9/en/(accessed 2 Feb 2004)

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