In an initiative to fight the spread of tobacco use, the WHO and Bloomberg's Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use have compiled six strategies into a program called MPOWER.
All these policies deal with wide ranging issues that include education, bans on advertising, increased tobacco taxes, and protection for non-smokers. However, developing counties, which needs these policies the most, have been unable or unwilling to commit the resources to back them.
Image: A lab worker demonstrates the harvesting of vaccine at the Life Science and Translational Research Center in Rockville, Maryland. The work is being supported by a $29.3 million grant from the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation. | Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images
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