WHO calls for ban on tobacco advertisements
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called upon its member-countries to ban tobacco advertising to protect youth from taking to smoking. Studies have shown that most smokers in South-East Asia start tobacco consumption before the age of 18 years, and almost a quarter of them start using it even before they are 10, it has said.
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