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Saturday, 24 April 2021, 4:25 pm
At
a time when the entire world is reeling under a severe
public health emergency, the tobacco industry is not leaving
any stone unturned to protect and expand its markets of
products that are proven to cause deadly diseases and
greenwash its dirty image (as it has blood on its hands of
over 8 million deaths every year attributed to tobacco use).
More alarmingly, tobacco is a major risk factor for several
health conditions that increase the risk of serious outcomes
if one gets infected with corona virus, including death. And
let us not forget that even before the Covid-19 pandemic,
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Ending tobacco use globally is not just a compelling public health imperative but is also key for social justice and corporate accountability. Let us not forget that each of the diseases caused by tobacco could have been prevented, and every tobacco-related .