Banning tobacco sales to youth may curb lung cancer mortality, WHO study finds

Policies that aim to create a tobacco-free generation may significantly prevent mortality from lung cancer across the world, according to recent research led by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC.)

The study, published earlier this month by the Lancet Public Health scientific journal, looked into the impact on lung cancer mortality rates of banning tobacco sales to people born between 2006 and 2010 in 185 countries. It found that generational tobacco bans may prevent as many as 1.2m deaths by 2095, or 40.2% of all lung cancer deaths expected to occur in this particular generation within that date.

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Tiziana Cauli

Senior reporter/health & science editor
Tiziana is an Italian journalist from Sardinia. She has worked for both international and local media in Italy, South Africa, France, Spain, the UK, Lebanon and Belgium. She also worked as a communications manager for several international NGOs in the humanitarian sector. Tiziana holds a degree in Political Science and a PhD in African Studies from the University of Cagliari and she’s a graduate of the Carlo De Martino school of journalism in Milan.

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