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Truth Initiative was founded in 1999 as a result of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). The MSA was announced in 1998, resolving the lawsuits brought by 46 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five territories against the major U.S. cigarette companies, to recover state Medicaid and other costs from caring for sick smokers.
Logo of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an organization of the United Nations. A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, [1] nonprofit institution, [2] or simply a nonprofit, [a] is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to ...
A not-for-profit or non-for-profit organization (NFPO) is a legal entity that does not distribute surplus funds to its members and is formed to fulfill specific objectives. [1] [2] While not-for-profit organizations and non-profit organizations (NPO) are distinct legal entities, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. [3]
Scientists have linked a reduction in smoking and increases in education to reducing the incidence rate of dementia in some high-income countries. Smoking and education interventions may help ...
The Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984 (also known as the Rotational Warning Act) is an act of the Congress of the United States.A national program established in order to improve the availability of information on health risks related to tobacco smoking, to amend the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act so that cigarette warning labels would be different, and for other ...
Nicotine Anonymous (NicA) is a twelve-step program founded in 1982 for people desiring to quit smoking and live free of nicotine. [1] As of July 2017, there are over 700 face-to-face meetings in 32 countries worldwide [2] with the majority of these meetings occurring in the United States, [2] Iran, [citation needed] India, [2] Canada, [2] Brazil, [2] the United Kingdom, [2] Australia, [2 ...
The creation of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was met with skepticism by the medical community. The World Health Organization, [4] [7] Union for International Cancer Control, [19] the American Cancer Society, [20] Vital Strategies [21] and other health organisations announced that they would not work with the Foundation, and encouraged governments and the public health community to ...
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...