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• Apr 23, 2013 Supreme Court Decision on Tobacco Warnings Will Save Lives FDA is one step closer to implementation of graphic warnings on cigarette packs (New York, USA) – World Lung Foundation (WLF) today welcomed a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge by the tobacco industry against the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control...    more...  
• Mar 25, 2013 Eight Provinces Across the Philippines Launch Campaign To Warn Smokers About Tar in Cigarettes    more   
• Mar 21, 2013 FDA Decision on Tobacco Warning Labels is Significant Setback for American Pubic Health    more   
• Mar 19, 2013 WLF Strongly Supports New York City Proposal to Ban Tobacco Displays    more   
• Feb 26, 2013 WLF Congratulates Russian Government on New National Tobacco Control Law    more   
• Feb 1, 2013 WLF Congratulates Russian Government on Progress Towards New National Tobacco Control Law    more   
• Jan 23, 2013 New Funding to Deliver Distance Training and Clinical Support for Maternal Health Workers in Rural Tanzania    more   
• Jan 16, 2013 WLF Urges UK Government to Keep Tobacco Companies Out of Discussions on Plain Packaging    more   
• Dec 4, 2012 WLF Commends US Government for Proposed Action on TB-HIV    more   
• Nov 15, 2012 New International Rules to Combat Tobacco Smuggling Commended By World Lung Foundation    more   
• Oct 15, 2012 Big Tobacco Fueling Global Economic Crises and Exploiting Trade Agreements    more   
• Oct 1, 2012 Millions of Lives at Stake as Tobacco Burden is Expected to Escalate in Africa    more   
• Sep 25, 2012 First Major Grants Awarded to Assess Children's Health Impacts of Clean Fuels and Cookstove Design    more   
• Aug 21, 2012 World Lung Foundation Hails Decision by Australia’s Highest Court to Uphold Law Requiring Plain Cigarette Packaging    more   
• Aug 17, 2012 Results From the Largest International Study of Tobacco Use Ever Published    more   
• Jul 3, 2012 Singapore Tobacco Control Campaign - A bad case of deja vu?    more   
• Jun 29, 2012 WLF Welcomes Report On Progress Towards Improved Maternal Health and Reductions in Child Mortality    more   
• Jun 15, 2012 5,000+ Youth Support Tobacco Control Law in Vietnam’s First-Ever National SMS Tobacco Control Campaign    more   
• Jun 8, 2012 This Week in Global Health This Week in Global Health A weekly round-up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. WLF Senior Advisor Judith Mackay tells The Standard that she is “fairly optimistic” about prospective plain packaging in Hong Kong. The Guardian reports that tobacco...    more...  
• May 31, 2012 New Campaign Launches to Warn Public of Tobacco’s Harms and Reverse Decades of Industry Misinformation    more   
• May 31, 2012 Are you one of the five?    more   
• May 15, 2012 Graphic Pack Warnings at WCTOH: Hope for the Future    more   
• Mar 22, 2012 World Lung Foundation Hails New Tobacco Control Funding Commitment From Bloomberg Philanthropies    more   
• Mar 21, 2012 New Tobacco Atlas Estimates U.S. $35 Billion Tobacco Industry Profits and Almost 6 Million Annual Deaths    more   
• Mar 16, 2012 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Mar 9, 2012 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Mar 2, 2012 President's Column, March 2012 Louis James de Viel Castel How far we have come. Perhaps that thought is best reserved for next month, when the global tobacco control community will come together at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore to review tobacco control’s progress and unfinished...    more...  
• Mar 2, 2012 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Jan 19, 2012 World Lung Foundation – Commonly Cited Resources and Materials    more   
• Dec 19, 2011 From Research to Action – China Tobacco Control Research Symposium, Lijiang, China    more   
• Nov 24, 2011 Peter Baldini, Chief Executive Officer of WLF, reflects on five years of global tobacco control work with Bloomberg Philanthropies    more   
• Nov 17, 2011 WLF Commends Bloomberg Philanthropies on Significant Progress Toward Reducing the Deadly Toll of Tobacco    more   
• Nov 11, 2011 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Nov 4, 2011 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Nov 1, 2011 Update from Kigoma: WLF’s latest work in Tanzania    more   
• Oct 28, 2011 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Oct 21, 2011 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Oct 13, 2011 Friends and Foes: How did your country fare at the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases    more   
• Sep 28, 2011 Close to the Drama: Speaking with Dr. Staffan Bergstrom about bringing services to underserved mothers in Tanzania    more   
• Sep 20, 2011 Follow the Action with Live Streaming Coverage from the UN Summit on NCDs    more   
• Sep 19, 2011 World Leaders Can Reduce NCD Deaths Now by Reducing Tobacco Use    more   
• Aug 31, 2011 Is your country blocking progress on global health for the UN Summit on NCDs? An urgent call to action.    more   
• Aug 11, 2011 Big Tobacco wants to be your Facebook friend    more   
• Aug 5, 2011 This Week in Global Health    more   
• Jul 27, 2011 World Lung Foundation Welcomes New Report on NCDs in China    more   
• Jul 27, 2011 Lung Health: The Need for Cleaner Cooking Methods    more   
• Jul 13, 2011 Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, Part I: Marketing Death to the Vulnerable    more   
• Jun 28, 2011 World Lung Foundation Condemns Tobacco Industry Attempts to Halt Graphic Warnings and Plain Packaging in Australia    more   
• Jun 27, 2011 Tobacco Advertising That Reached Millions Banned on the Moscow Metro    more   
• Jun 16, 2011 CEO's Column June 2011:
  A Legacy    more   
• Jun 14, 2011 Maternal Death Crisis Addressed at Summit in Tanzania 1    more   
• May 31, 2011 World Lung Foundation Supports New Tobacco Control Campaigns in Eight Countries    more   
• May 31, 2011 New Cigarette Pack Warning Resource Enables Governments to Fulfill Key Health Treaty Obligation    more   
• Mar 31, 2011 Engaging the Non-Communicable Disease Challenge: The Opportunity Ahead    more   
• Mar 24, 2011 New Report From World Lung Foundation Reveals Inextricable Links Between Tobacco and Tuberculosis
  *Calls for Tobacco Control Measures to be Integrated into TB Programs* (March 24, 2011, New York, NY) – Coinciding with World TB Day, World Lung Foundation today issued a white paper exploring the links between tuberculosis and tobacco use. The paper, entitled “Directions: The Deadly Pairing of Tuberculosis and Smoking,” is a meta-study of research from...    more...  
• Mar 14, 2011 Tanzania: Improving maternal and child health    more   
• Mar 14, 2011 WLF Web Campaign Urges Heads-Of-State to Attend UN Summit on NCDs    more   
• Mar 3, 2011 WLF Interview on Russia's Tobacco Tax Increase    more   
• Feb 17, 2011 Partners with NCD Alliance to Push for Non-Communicable Diseases in Millennium Development Goals  
• Dec 13, 2010 Capacity Building: Tanzania    more   
• Nov 23, 2010 President's Column
  The Acute Respiratory Infections Atlas    more   
• Aug 19, 2010 The American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation Release The Tobacco Atlas, Third Edition in Chinese Data shows some progress in tobacco control, but further action needed for China to meet international treaty commitments (Shenzhen, China) -Today, the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation released the Chinese language version of The...    more...  
• Jun 28, 2010 WLF Commends Egyptian Government on Tobacco Tax Increase    more   
• Mar 24, 2010 World TB Day, March 24, 2010    more   
• Jan 28, 2010 Tobacco Control features gift-giving campaign.    more   
• Oct 22, 2009 Support WLF's Running team!    more   
• Sep 28, 2009 World Lung Foundation Announces $49,000 Grant for Child Asthma in Kenya Funds Raised By WLF in NYC Half-Marathon Will Provide Comprehensive Treatment for Children in Kenya with Chronic Asthma (New York) - World Lung Foundation today announced that its 25-member running team raised $49,000 to provide life-saving asthma treatment to more than 1,700...    more...  
• Aug 2, 2009 Multimedia: Fighting maternal mortality in Tanzania. Multimedia: WLF's critical work fighting maternal and infant mortality in Tanzania.    more...  
• WLF Applauds United Nations Vote for Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases    more   
• World No Tobacco Day 2010    more   
• WLF Team Runs New York City Half-Marathon to Aid Children with Asthma    more   
• ACS and WLF Present The Tobacco Atlas in Spanish Data shows some progress in tobacco control, but Mexico still among top 20 countries with largest number of smokers (Mexico City, Mexico) - Today, the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation presented the Spanish version of The...    more   
• Health Check - BBC    more   
• CEO's Column - CHINA: THE CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY    more   
• 4 Million Deaths Each Year Caused by Acute Respiratory Infections – New Atlas Details Pandemic    more   
• CEO’S Column2011:
  THE CHALLENGES AHEAD    more   
• April 14th: The Future of International Tobacco Control with Dr. Tom Frieden of the CDC    more   
• Launching the Anti-Tobacco Fight in Bangladesh    more   
• 70% of World’s Population Sees No Tobacco Counter-Advertising    more   
• Watch Unite in the fight against NCDs    more