PRESENTATION OF COLLECTION "ANTI-TOBACCO PROGRAMS REALIZED IN ARMENIA IN 2004-2006"
Arka News Agency, Armenia
March 6 2007
YEREVAN, March 5. /ARKA/. The presentation of the collection
"Anti-tobacco programs realized in Armenia in 2004-2006" was held
in Yerevan.
"We hope that the measures of the combat against smoking realized in
the republic during the last period will have a sequential continuation
in 2007 and we will have a chance to publish a similar edition next
year," said Narine Movsisyan, Coordinator of the Coalition "Armenia
against tobacco".
The collection includes objectives, methods and approaches to the
combat against smoking in Armenia conducted by 25 NGOs entering the
"Armenia against tobacco" bloc.
The collection’s circulation made 400 copies in the Armenian language.
It was published with the support of the American University in
Armenia, the Open Society Institute, the Armenian union "Public health"
and Armenian association of public health.
According to the world healthcare organization data, among the CIS
countries Armenia ranks the first by the number of smokers (two out
of three men smoke). Annually 2,000 people aging 35-69 die in Armenia
because of tobacco-caused diseases.