Sunday, May 29, 2011

World No Tobacco Day

The World Health Orgaisation (WHO) select the  World No Tobacco Day on every 31st of May . This year 2011 theme choosen by the WHO is "The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control."

We, found the Graph related to Tobacco in the WHO website.

Tobacco use is a risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of death in the world



Hatched areas indicate proportions of deaths that are related to tobacco use and are coloured according to the column of the respective cause of death.

*Includes mouth and oropharyngeal cancers, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, other cancers, as well as cardiovascular diseases other than ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease.
Source: Mathers CD, Loncar D. Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PLoS Medicine, 2006, 3(11): e442. Additional information obtained from personal communication with C.D. Mathers.
Source of revised HIV/AIDS figure: AIDS epidemic update. Geneva, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization (WHO), 2007.
Original source taken from:
World Health Organisation Website at: http://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/graphs/en/index.html