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by linkup
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:14 am |
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UPDATED: 15:25, April 07, 2007
Anti-smoking campaign gets under way
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http://english.people.com.cn/200704/07/eng20070407_364573.html
An anti-smoking campaign, "Toward a Smoke-free China", has been launched to get people to give up the habit which could be harmful to health.
The campaign was launched in Beijing on Friday with a fund of $125 million. The money was donated by the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
And this Maniac wants to buy the US Presidency!!!
The two-year campaign will be run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), Peking Union Medical College and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
"The joint scheme will refine and optimize tobacco control intervention in China," said China CDC director Wang Yu, calling for special attention to the problem of young people smoking.
Covering about 20 pilot provinces, the project aims to help combat tobacco use in China by creating smoke-free environments and boosting anti-smoking education.
Among China's 350 million smokers, a staggering 100 million are under the age of 18, according to the Ministry of Health.
To redress the situation, China initiated a nationwide tobacco-free-school campaign in 2003. Both students and teachers are strictly prohibited from smoking, Wang said.
International experiences show that tobacco taxation is one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use, said Susan V. Lawrence, head of China programs of the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids, a US-based youth smoking intervention organization.
Today's children are tomorrow's future and they deserve top attention and care under the tobacco-free scheme, Lawrence said.
A WHO survey shows that tobacco consumption by young people drops by 14 percent when cigarette prices are put up 10 percent.
Lawrence said under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, ratified at the end of 2005, China is currently considering introducing strong warning labels on the use of tobacco products.
Source: China Daily |
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by gilster
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:36 am |
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linkup wrote:
Among China's 350 million smokers.........
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International experiences show that tobacco taxation is one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use, said Susan V. Lawrence, head of China programs of the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids, a US-based youth smoking intervention organization.
And there it is in a NUTSHELL - TAXES
350 million X's $?.?? = Big $$$$$$$$
Bloomingidiot is in essence building up the funds of China's government to be an even bigger super power to contend with...
His seed-money will expand the Chinese Government a million-fold.
Start learning your chinese characters now... |
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by linkup
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:48 am |
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| I equate Tobacco Free Kids Org with the Hitler Youth Org. And Bloomberg with Hitler!! |
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by linkup
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:14 pm |
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The original article announcing Bloomberg's plan to affect smokers worldwide,from nycclash.com ( http://www.nycclash.com/2006news.html ) :
August 15, 2006
Bloomberg Donating $125 Million to Anti-Smoking Efforts
By Diane Cardwell
Taking a significant step toward becoming a full-time philanthropist after leaving office, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pledged today to spend $125 million of his own money to build a global anti-smoking campaign.
The donation, to be funneled to existing organizations over two years, is the largest single contribution to global tobacco-control efforts, anti-smoking advocates said. And beyond that, it shows how Mr. Bloomberg, who made banning smoking in bars and restaurants a focus of his first term, plans to amplify his work in office as he begins building his charitable foundation.
“I think we’ve learned some important things about how we convince people to stop smoking,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at NBC television studios. “It is one of the world’s biggest killers and it has sadly been overlooked by the philanthropic community.”
Under the plan, Mr. Bloomberg would spend the money to create and support programs aimed at helping the world become tobacco free. The campaign would use several approaches, including developing and expanding quitting and prevention programs, encouraging the adoption of New York-style tobacco taxes and smoking bans, and designing a system to track tobacco use and efforts to stop it worldwide.
The campaign would also work to change the image of tobacco, support efforts to educate communities about its harms, create a global clearinghouse for anti-tobacco ads and bring together a legal consortium to assist in drafting and passing legislation. A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, Robert Lawson, declined to identify the organizations the campaign would work with, saying that arrangements had yet to be made final.
Mr. Bloomberg, one of the country’s richest people, has long said that he plans to give away the bulk of his fortune, estimated by Forbes this year at $5.1 billion, and he has been steadily increasing his philanthropic giving. In 1997, he gave $26.6 million to charity; last year, he ranked seventh among the nation’s philanthropists in a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, giving away $144 million.
Over the years, he has often made large gifts to academic or health-oriented institutions — the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he was an undergraduate, now bears his name — and a series of smaller, ostensibly anonymous gifts to arts and social service groups.
This time, however, Mr. Bloomberg said it made more sense to announce his plans, both out of a desire to attract people with good ideas to his efforts and because once it became part of a foundation, people would find out anyway. Mr. Bloomberg is in the midst of buying a $45 million mansion on the Upper East Side to house the foundation, which is likely to focus on his primary areas of interest, including education, the arts and public health, perhaps as first among equals.
Speaking of the foundation, he said: “I plan to try to focus my resources where we can make a difference in improving the health and the quality of life of people in New York City, in the state, in the country and even around the world.”
Public health advocates greeted news of Mr. Bloomberg’s plan with praise. Dr. Prabhat Jha, a professor of epidemiology at St. Michael’s Hospital at the University of Toronto and an expert on tobacco control, said that if the money was spent the right way, it could make a tremendous difference in curtailing tobacco use.
“If Mayor Bloomberg can help governments take tobacco seriously, then it will have an impact,” he said. “Once governments take tobacco seriously, they can figure out that there are a few really effective interventions.” Those include raising the price of tobacco through taxes, clean air laws that restrict public smoking, prominent warning labels and clear information about the consequences of tobacco use.
Dr. Jha said the fact that Mr. Bloomberg was getting up on an “international soapbox and speaking about tobacco” was a contribution in itself. But he cautioned that the money should be used to help build public consensus about tobacco dangers and political support for tackling them, especially in poor countries with high smoking rates.
“The details matter,” he said. If the money is well spent and focused on countries like India, China, Nigeria and Indonesia rather than on institutional overhead in the West, he said, “you could have a real bang for the buck.” |
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by linkup
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:33 pm |
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I saw on news that Bloomberg was considering a run for President of USA.If he spends a billion dollars of his own fortune and wins,I will move to Mexico.
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by linkup
on Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:55 pm |
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The latest info from Forbes on Bloomberg:
The World's Billionaires
#142 Michael Bloomberg
03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET
Age: 65
Fortune: self made
Source: Bloomberg
Net Worth: $5.5 bil
Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: New York, New York , United States, North America
Industry: Media/Entertainment
Marital Status: divorced, 2 children
Education: Johns Hopkins University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Harvard University, Master of Business Administration
Mayor Mike is New York City's guiding political force; dropped $85 million in 2005 mayoral election, 9 times what opponent Fernando Ferrer spent. Bloomberg LP thriving on strong demand for data terminals at hedge funds. Revenue now exceed $4 billion. News service also growing; hiring new reporters. Donated $150 million to charity in past year; plans to sell company once out of office and give away entire fortune.
This man is an abnormality!!! |
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by CarolAnn
on Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:51 pm |
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| This should help persuade them to hate capitalism, and laugh at America's vaunted so-called democracy! See what a dirty, stinking fraud this whole system is, of a little clique of filthy rich people, who own the government and the media, spewing lies and defamations and persecuting the people with impunity! |
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by ericblair2084
on Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:44 pm |
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It is ironic that King Bloomingidiot made his Billions through the free market and capitalism...then used his money to prevent bar and restaurant owners from doing the same thing.
Then he turns around and uses his obscene (in a good way, I love it) profits that he gained through capitalism to impose private property and smoking bans, aka Communism on a country that was Communist and has now figured out that Capitalism works but now he wants them to go back to being Communist only in this particular case while remaining Capitalist in other areas until King Bloomberg decides they need to be Communist again in which case he will give them more Capitalist blood money to make them Communist.
Does anybody understand what I just said? If so, please explain it to me because I don't get it myself. |
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by Torquemeda
on Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:50 pm |
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Does anybody understand what I just said? If so, please explain it to me because I don't get it myself.
What I got out of it is this; "If the Republican nomination is Michael Bloomberg and the Democratic nomination is Hilary Clinton, than we are all fucked and should move to China. |
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by Colin
on Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:26 am |
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I'm not one for conspiracies, as a general rule, but did anyone else make the connection between Mayor Gloombergs recent donation to China, and the recently released study that smokers produce more girls?
The Chinese, restricted, as they are, in the number of children they can produce, are notorious for wanting boys.
Suddenly two things happen: Gloomberg donates a shitload of cash, and the very next thing we see is a "study" saying that if you smoke, you are more likely to have a baby girl. Is there a connection, or am I just stretching things to make them fit? |
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