Thursday, May 31, is World No Tobacco Day.
Thursday, May 31, is World No Tobacco Day. The theme of World No Tobacco Day 2018 is “Tobacco and heart disease” with the focus this year being on cardiovascular health.
The University of Waterloo has an expert available to speak on this topic.
Geoffrey Fong – Psychology
Fong is a Professor of Psychology and of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, and Senior Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He is the Founder and Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project), the world’s largest tobacco research program.
“The theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day focuses on increasing public awareness that tobacco products cause heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular harms. Our global research project (the ITC Project) in 29 countries shows that throughout the world there are serious gaps in smokers’ knowledge of the harms of smoking to heart health. Even in Canada, where smoking is the number one cause of heart disease and stroke, 14% of smokers were not aware that smoking causes stroke.
— Geoffrey T. Fong
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Ryon Jones
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