World Lung Foundation Supports Uruguay's Efforts to Stop the Tobacco Industry from Undermining its Progressive Tobacco Control Policies
Thursday, November 18, 2010(New York, New York) -Today World Lung Foundation joined the tobacco control community in supporting Uruguay's efforts to withstand legal challenges by Philip Morris International against its strong cigarette pack warning laws.
Uruguay requires that 80 percent of the front and back of cigarette packages be covered with graphic, pictorial warnings and also has laws that prohibit against the use of deceptive and misleading terms such as "light" and "low tar." Philip Morris is attempting to undermine Uruguay's strong pack warning efforts. As a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, World Lung Foundation stands ready to assist Uruguayan government officials as they mount a counter-offensive to the tobacco industry, and defeat its attempt to reverse Uruguay's progressive tobacco control work.
World Lung Foundation is a partner in Bloomberg
Philanthropies' global anti-tobacco initiative
along with the International Union Against
Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Foundation, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the
World Health Organization.
http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm
About World Lung Foundation
World
Lung Foundation was established in response to
the global epidemic of
lung disease, which kills 10 million people
each year. The organization
improves global lung health by improving local
capacity to conduct
research, develop public policy and deliver
public health education.
The organization's areas of emphasis are
tobacco control, tuberculosis,
HIV/AIDS, asthma, and child lung health. For
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For more information, please contact:
Sandra Mullin, World Lung Foundation, at +1
(212) 639-0060 or smullin@worldlungfoundation.org.