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    WHO launches new initiative to help smokers around the world quit smoking

    • Last Update: 2020-11-29
    • Source: Internet
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    , July 10 (Xinhua Liu Qu) The World Health Organization announced on the 10th the launch of a new initiative to help 1.3 billion smokers around the world quit smoking during the new crown pandemic.
    WHO Director-General Tan Desser said at a regular press conference that the initiative will help people have unrestricted access to the resources needed to quit smoking, such as nicotine replacement therapy, advice from digital health workers and so on.
    according to WHO, smoking kills 8 million people worldwide each year; If smokers need more motivation to get rid of the habit, the current new crown pandemic provides the right impetus, Tandese said.
    said WHO was in the final stages of adding more partners to the initiative and encouraged pharmaceutical and technology companies to join the initiative. He said WHO would first launch the initiative in Jordan and then roll it out globally in the coming months.
    reported that the initiative, led by WHO and the United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on Noncommunicable Diseases, aims to bring together the technology industry, pharmaceutical companies, and non-governmental organizations such as the Health Fit Technology Organization and the Alliance for Access to Drugs and Products for Noncommunicable Diseases.
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