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Launch of the Tobacco-Free finance pledge of financing without tobacco (October 11, 2018)
The objective of the Tobacco-Free finance pledge of financing without tobacco is to celebrate that the investment associations took a first step towards a tobacco-free world.
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Report on Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas - PAHO (September 18, 2018)
The Report on Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas was launched recently, in order to provide an overview of the situation of the tobacco epidemic in the 35 countries of the Region.
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What does the press say about the tobacco tax? (May 11, 2018)
The start of the new year brings news about increases of prices, minimum wages and other economic issues of interest. Many measures that produce changes in taxes, such as tobacco tax, begin to apply from January, so this news are usually accompanied by a message of disapproval to an increase in prices. In the case of tobacco, these increases should be received as good news since this means that the health protection mechanism for which they were designed, actually begins to operate. Below is explained the press reaction to tobacco taxes in Uruguay and Argentina from some of their most important newspapers.
By Jineth Araujo.
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The role of the tobacco tax and universal health coverage (LinkedIn, May 11, 2018)
On December 22, The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim published an article on Linkedin explaining the importance of universal health coverage (UHC) and how to achieve it.
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