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Strategies beyond the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control could reduce deaths due to lung cancer - IARC

Strategies beyond the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control could reduce deaths due to lung cancer – IARC

IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer / WHO shared a post on LinkedIn:

“IARC paper in The Lancet Public Health shows prohibiting sale of tobacco to people born in 2006-2010 could prevent 1.2 million Lung Cancer deaths by 2095.

This first-of-its-kind study strengthens the evidence that adopting endgame strategies beyond the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control could reduce deaths due to lung cancer.”

Strategies beyond the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control could reduce deaths due to lung cancer - IARC

Estimated impact of a tobacco-elimination strategy on lung-cancer mortality in 185 countries: a population-based birth-cohort simulation study

Authors: Julia Rey Brandariz, et al. 

Strategies beyond the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control could reduce deaths due to lung cancer - IARC

 

 

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