World Lung Foundation

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The World Lung Foundation has been established because we believe that research, education, advocacy, and cooperation among organizations that are working to improve lung health can - and will - reduce these unnecessary deaths.

In support of our mission to improve lung health for people throughout the world, the Foundation works with organizations and agencies such as the Stop TB Partnership, the World Health Organization, and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). The Union is a nonprofit scientific organization that has played a leading role in the fight against tuberculosis and other lung diseases for 86 years. Among The Union's many achievements has been the development of DOTS, the internationally recommended TB control strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization for treatment and control of tuberculosis. The DOTS strategy has now been implemented in 182 countries throughout the world, saving millions of lives.

The World Lung Foundation is working with partner agencies to create similarly innovative models of tobacco prevention and cessation in countries with the highest rates of tobacco consumption. Global tobacco use is predicted to rise from the current 1.3 billion smokers to 1.6 billion by 2030, principally because of population expansion. In addition, the epidemic is being transferred from developed to developing countries, which are least able to shoulder the health and economic burden. Effective tobacco control policies are well-known - such as tax increases, creation of smoke-free areas, and bans on all advertising and promotion. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), supported by the World Lung Foundation, the Union, and other members of civil society, offers an immediate route for implementing such policies and reducing the tobacco toll.

The World Lung Foundation works with The Union, WHO, and other international organizations that share its goals by developing and funding projects and training programs, advocating for evidence-based lung health policy, promoting scientific exchanges among researchers, and raising funds for the advancement and application of basic science to treat and cure lung disease.

Please join us in our efforts. Working together, we can help everyone in the world breathe more easily.

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2009 edition of the Tobacco Atlas catalogues catastrophic toll of tobacco worldwide. Economics Week; 9/11/2009 ...Edition, published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, estimates that tobacco use kills some six million...said Peter Baldini, chief executive officer, World Lung Foundation." This evidence clearly articulates the breathtaking... ...more

Tobacco will kill 6M people next year.(Opinion) Manila Bulletin; 8/29/2009 ...issued on Tuesday.The new Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society estimates that tobacco...the main findings in the new Tobacco Atlas by the World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society.Financial cost... ...more

Effects of tobacco cost world pounds 304.6 bn a year; ECONOMY.(Business) The Birmingham Post (England); 8/26/2009 ...and middle income nations. Report co-author and World Lung Foundation adviser Judith Mackay said the ultimate responsibility...That progress needs to continue." CAPTION(S): World Lung Foundation advisor Dr Judith Mackay reads the Tobacco Atlas... ...more