Today is World Cancer Day, a global initiative to combat one of the leading causes of death across the globe.
The World Health Organization estimates that 84 million people will die from the disease between 2005 and 2015, and the campaign against cigarette smoking is a crucial part of the fight against cancer.
Daljit Dhaliwal speaks to Dr. Neil Schluger, Chief Scientific Officer of World Lung Foundation for more about tobacco use among the estimated 1.1 billion smokers in the world. He points out that getting rid of cigarettes would increase the health of the planet more than curing tuberculosis, AIDS, or malaria.
02/23/2010 :: 05:08:32 PM
Visitor Says:
Funny, in all her interviews, Daljit generally asks hard questions and refuses to take the interviewee’s views at face value. Here she doesn’t pose a single challenging or interesting questions, such as “what should the limits of tobacco control policy be?”, or “wait a minute — how could tobacco use cost governments as much as you say? Don’t smokers, if they become ill, only do so late in life? Don’t they collect less pensions and not live as long? Are you counting the cost of treating healthy people longer as they live to be older?” At least give us something interesting, Daljit!