Thi year‘ obervance of World No Tobacco Day focue on "Gender and tobacco， with an emphai on marketing to women”。
Although fewer than 1 out of 10 women are moker， that till add up to an etimated 200 million women around the world. Moreover， that number could grow， ince the tobacco indutry i pending heavily on advertiement that target women and aociate tobacco ue with beauty and liberation.
According to a recent tudy by the World Health Organization (WHO)， the number of girl and boy who moked wa about equal in half the 151 countrie urveyed. Thi finding i even more worriome ince young people who moke are likely to continue in adulthood.
Evidence indicate that the prevalence rate of tobacco ue among women i on the rie in ome countrie. Government everywhere mut take action to protect women from tobacco advertiing， promotion and ponorhip， a tipulated in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
The Convention alo call on Government to protect women from econd-hand tobacco moke -- epecially in countrie where women feel powerle to protect themelve and their children. A WHO data how， of the 430，000 adult who die each year from econd-hand moke， nearly two third are women.
Around the world， more than 1.5 million women die each year from tobacco ue. Mot of thee death occur in low-and middle-income countrie. Without concerted action， that number could rie to 2.5 million women by the year 2030.WWw.hAOZUowEN.com
We mut turn back the global tobacco epidemic. On World No Tobacco Day， I urge all Government to addre thi public health threat. Tobacco ue i not tylih or empowering. It i ugly and deadly.