5 million people worldwide die of tobacco related diseases every year, which is one death every 10 seconds. Despite the crack down on smokers in South Africa through increased tax on cigarettes and restrictions on where they can smoke, few people take heed of the warnings that tobacco kills. In this insert produced by Fathima Simjee, Ken Newman, who was a smoker for over 50 years explains why he wishes he had never lit a cigarette in his life.
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This month Dr Eve argues that the rights, needs of the patients need to come first, that all information must be evidence based and that all health care providers must work in an integrated multidisciplinary manner.
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The latest edition of The Lancet journal has an editorial calling for tobacco control in developing countries to be stepped up in an effort to impact on the cancer incidence.
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National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
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The theme is "Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women". If women smoke like men they will die like men.
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With the help of cancer and tobacco control advocates around the world, the UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non- communicable diseases (NCDs), passed during the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on May 13 2010.
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Non-communicable Disease Summit to focus on long-term killer diseases that threaten economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
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