Tobacco-related disease and death is preventable
Fully implement WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and all its policies, which will reduce tobacco use and consequently cardiovascular disease levels in the Region.
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Fully implement the technical packages that constitute WHO’s Global Hearts Initiative (MPOWER, SHAKE & HEARTS), which can save many millions of lives by ramping up proven measures to prevent cardiovascular disease in communities and countries, including taxing tobacco, reducing salt in foods, detecting and treating people at high risk and strengthening primary health care services.