Dr. Derek Yach, President of the Foundation, has been supporting and leading smoking cessation research and policy development for more than 30 years. As an anti-smoking advocate, he has been a strong proponent of harm-reduction policies and was calling for a greater emphasis on harm reduction as early as 2005. He is also a passionate advocate of health promotion and disease prevention and was instrumental in the development of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), an international treaty that was developed and adopted in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. It states the dangers of tobacco and presents measures to limit its use, sale, distribution, and advertisement worldwide.
Dr. Yach is an advocate of healthy lifestyles, including exercise and a nutritious diet. He recognizes that creating a smoke-free world will contribute to preventing non-communicable diseases, adding years to the lives of the global population, improving quality of life, and increasing economic production. Here you will find out more about Dr. Yach’s commitment to end smoking and his work on harm reduction for those unable to quit.
In two years, the introduction of harm reduction products in #Japan has had a greater impact on smokers than over the last 30 years. Watch the video to learn about the current state of #smokingcessation and #harmreduction. http://bit.ly/2WiQkDs
Writing in @TheLancet, FSFW Data Analyst Yuchen Xue notes an oversight in the journal's account of occupational hazards in #China, namely, smoking in the workplace. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2UQRtDD
Derek Yach spoke at the @ForumAurora in #Armenia, where he noted, “I believe that in the next 10-15 years we will end up seeing lung cancer being managed like a chronic disease and no longer being a death sentence like it is today.” #CancerPreventionMonth http://bit.ly/39l7GVL
In addition to the falling prices of unmanufactured tobacco, smallholder farmers in #Malawi face another adversity: environmental degradation. Social anthropologist @axelklein2 probes into issues facing #AlternativeLivelihoods in a new blog piece: http://bit.ly/38mkBq5
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