12 NGOs WIN GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO ADVOCATE DANGERS OF SMOKING
Armenpress
Nov 02 2006
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS: The Public Dialogue and Developments
Center has revealed today the names of 12 non-governmental
organizations, which were recognized winners of a competition for
government grants to advocate dangers of smoking.
This was the second tender for government grants to this end held
by the Public Dialogue and Developments Center, picked up by the
government to organize and steer these competitions. The first tender
held earlier this year was won by 10 non-governmental organizations.
One of these organizations, the Association of Pediatricians and
Psychologists, will hold a 90-minute march on November in downtown
Yerevan 4 titled ‘No to Smoking.’ The World Health Organization
(WHO) estimates that 63.7 percent of Armenian men are smokers – the
highest rate in Europe. By comparison, an estimated 60 percent of men
in neighboring Georgia and 31.2 percent in Azerbaijan are smokers. The
number of smoking women also increases, the bulk of them in Yerevan.