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ACS Activities at Global Tobacco Control Conference in Mumbai: Oxford Health Alliance video

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The first part of this video, produced for the American Cancer Society by the Oxford Health Alliance, shows two of the programs in which the American Cancer Society was involved at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH), held in Mumbai, India, in March 2009. The first program shown...

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Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.

  • There are more than one billion smokers in the world.

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