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WHO released the Global report on mortality attributable to tobacco February 2012. This report provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco by major communicable and non-communicable causes by age and sex. It builds and is consistent with the global estimate provided in WHO’s 2009 report entitled Global Health Risks: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks. WHO Global Report on Mortality Attributable to Tobacco
Regional workshop on implementation of the WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control
The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange country experiences and identify best practices in implementation of the Convention. Based on the discussions held during the workshop, the Parties unanimously supported the following recommendations.
WHO report on the global
tobacco epidemic In the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2011, evidence shows that large, graphic health warnings on tobacco packages motivate people to stop using tobacco and reduce the appeal for people who are not yet addicted. The use of these graphic health warnings is among the six demand reduction measures recommended by WHO. Other measures include: monitoring tobacco use; protecting people from tobacco smoke; helping users to quit; enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; and raising taxes on tobacco. Each measure corresponds to at least one provision of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This report is the third in a series of periodic reports on the global tobacco epidemic. The international launch of the report will take place on Thursday, 7 July 2011 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Press release
Graphic health warnings on cigarette packs can help save lives In their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, published a study on how graphic health warnings on cigarette packs prompt smokers to quit and discourage non-smokers from starting. The CDC and World Health Organization encourage the use of prominent pictorial warnings as a component of an comprehensive tobacco control programme to communicate the harm of smoking and help save lives.
WHO has selected “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control" as the theme for World No Tobacco Day 2011 to highlight
the importance of the treaty, to stress Parties' obligations
under the treaty and to promote the essential role of the
Conference of the Parties and WHO in supporting country efforts.
The economics of tobacco and tobacco taxation in Egypt
The report entitled “The economics of tobacco and tobacco taxation in Egypt” was released 29 March 2011 by the World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Middle East Office in collaboration with international partners. The Government of Egypt substantially increased taxation on tobacco products last year as international evidence has shown that increasing taxation on tobacco products is one of the most significant measures to boost tobacco control, increase revenues and save lives. Moreover, higher prices deter youth from using tobacco and encourage adult smokers to quit. This report focuses on the importance of taxation policies for tobacco control, the current status of tobacco products taxes in Egypt and the way forward. Press release | Full report | Fact sheet on tobacco taxes in Egypt | Key facts | Cigarettes are eating you alive ad Further reading: Increasing tobacco taxation revenue in Egypt | Tobacco taxation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region | Tobacco taxation | Taxation and price
On 27 February 2005, the WHO FCTC entered into force and became binding international law. In commemoration of this achievement in public health, the Tobacco Free Initiative programme in the Regional Office celebrated the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the WHO FCTC at a special session of the 57th session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC 57) in Cairo. The special session of the RC meeting was organized in collaboration with the Framework Convention Secretariat. Participants of the meeting included Ministers of Health, WHO staff and Representatives and media personnel. Four key fact sheets were released during this session on Egypt’s tax increase, illicit trade, the WHO FCTC and tobacco taxation in the Region.
The Wall Street Journal: “Egypt steps up
effort to snuff out smoking”
Against the law, direct tobacco
advertisements are on satellite channels again.
World No Tobacco Day 2010 Tobacco use by women is a serious, growing problem throughout the world. Although the majority of smokers are men, many women and children are affected by their second-hand smoke. Women comprise about 20% of the world’s more than 1 billion smokers and this figure is rising. Use of other forms of tobacco, such as shisha and smokeless tobacco, is also increasing among women in many countries, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
Global Adult Tobacco Survey
WHO launches the Global Tobacco Epidemic Report, 2009
WHO chose smoke-free environments as the focus of this Report because of the irrefutable harm caused by second-hand smoke, which results in nearly 600 000 premature deaths per year along with countless debilitating illnesses and economic losses in tens of billions of dollars. Press release│Questions and answers | WHO HQ Tobacco and cancer control event
The Keynote Speaker for this event will be the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control, Nancy Brinker. Ambassador Brinker is known around the world for the work that has defined her life for nearly 30 years, when her sister, Susan G. Komen, died of breast cancer at the age of 36. Two years later, Ambassador Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation with the mission of ending breast cancer forever.
In accordance with her experience and in celebration of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, Ambassador Brinker will give special attention to
cancer and tobacco control among women during this event. Al Korba National Festival
This Festival is a yearly event organized by the Suzan Mubarak Association for Women Development and Peace and is attended by the Governor of Cairo. As part of this Festival, the following activities were undertaken: (1) a march with balloons representing each partner; (2) the dissemination of stickers; (3) a puppet show; and (4) an anti-smoking ‘signature’ campaign where passer-bys would sign under the statement ‘proud of being a non-smoker’ – and with every 100th signature, a cigarette would be placed in the noose and hung. WNTD 09: Morocco; Lalla Salma Association for Cancer successfully undertakes anti-tobacco campaign Chaired by Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, Lalla Salma Association against cancer (Association Lalla Salma De Lutte Contre Le Cancer) (ALSC) is a public utility, non-profit organization, and one of the most active civil society organizations in the region in the fight against cancer and tobacco use. Lalla Salma Association against cancer organized a three week anti-smoking campaign from 15 May to 6 June 2009. The national campaign of communication and information was titled "all against tobacco" . Moroccan Parliament has recently approved strong legislative amendments in its national tobacco control legislation. Tobacco control is also a priority agenda in the national plan for prevention and control of cancer (PNPCC). The campaign was an attempt to create a favorable environment to trigger public support for strong tobacco control.
Association Lalla Salma contre le cancer
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The
workshop brought together national experts from 15 States
Parties to the Convention from the WHO Eastern Mediterranean
Region, as well as representatives of the European Union,
the World Bank, UN Office, Office of the Health Minister’s
Council for Gulf Cooperation Council States, and three
nongovernmental organizations accredited as observers to the
Conference of the Parties, to discuss the major challenges
and achievements in implementation of the WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control. 
World No Tobacco Day 2011 
WHO
Regional Office celebrates five years of the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (FCTC)
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Egypt, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) released the full country report of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in Egypt on Wednesday, 28 January 2010. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey, which was conducted in 2009, is a standardized global survey for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use (smoked and smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators. The MoH, CAPMAS and the WHO Representative’s Office in Egypt are the three national partners who collaborated in this survey.
WHO
is launching the second 
The
Tobacco Free Initiative
unit, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office is holding a first-time
event on the link between tobacco use and cancer this Sunday, 25 October
2009. 
In
collaboration with Egypt’s Ministry of Health, the WHO Representative
Office, Al Sawy Cultural Wheel, Life Without Smoking and Johns Hopkins
University, TFI EMRO participated in Al Korba National Festival on 15
May 2009. 
Tobacco companies use pretty packaging to make their products seem cool. In truth, tobacco kills and sickens. Picture warnings convince people to quit. Don t just tell the truth. Show it!
