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Plain tobacco packaging encourages more people to stop smoking and fewer to start
Consumers perceive plain packaging as ugly and dull — it decreases the attractiveness of tobacco products and smoking, particularly to young people and women. A new evidence brief confirms the effectiveness of plain packaging measures in smoking prevention and cessation …
Tajikistan introduces rotavirus vaccine to protect children from diarrhoeal disease
With an official launch ceremony on 8 January 2015, Tajikistan became the fourteenth country in the WHO European Region to introduce rotavirus vaccination into its national immunization schedule, and the fourth to do so through the generous support of the GAVI Alliance …
Plain tobacco packaging encourages more people to stop smoking and fewer to start
Consumers perceive plain packaging as ugly and dull — it decreases the attractiveness of tobacco products and smoking, particularly to young people and women. A new evidence brief confirms the effectiveness of plain packaging measures in smoking prevention and cessation …
Most types of cancer not due to bad luck
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), WHO’s specialized cancer agency, strongly disagrees with the conclusion of a scientific report on the causes of human cancer by Dr Cristian Tomasetti and Dr Bert Vogelstein, published in the journal “Science” on 2 January 2015 and widely …
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