3 February 2014 – With new cancer cases worldwide expected to rise from 14 million to 22 million per year within the next two decades, and annual cancer deaths rising from 8.2 million to 13 million, the United Nations today called for multipronged preventive action including treaties and laws extending tobacco-style restrictions to alcohol and sweetened beverages.

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As an example of preventive strategies the report highlights the need for adequate legislation to reduce exposure and risk behaviours, citing the first international treaty sponsored by WHO, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, as critical to reducing tobacco consumption, a major contributor to lung and other cancers, through taxes, advertising restrictions, and other regulations and measures to control and discourage its use of tobacco.

Similar approaches need to be evaluated in other areas, notably consumption of alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, and in limiting exposure to occupational and environmental carcinogenic risks, including air pollution, it stresses, noting that about half of all cancers, whose total annual economic cost is estimated to reach approximately $1.16 trillion, could be avoided if current knowledge was adequately implemented.

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Globally, in 2012 the most common cancers diagnosed were those of the lung (1.8 million cases, 13 per cent of the total), breast (1.7 million, 11.9 per cent), and large bowel (1.4 million, 9.7 per cent). The most common causes of cancer death were cancers of the lung (1.6 million, 19.4 per cent), liver (0.8 million, 9.1 per cent), and stomach (0.7 million, 8.8 per cent).

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47067&Cr=cancer&Cr1=

Obama brushing his teeth makes them pop.

talking about how we lost Virginia and North Carolina and offended those hard working blue collar smokers and farmers.

that I, personally, don't approve of.

like candy (at the register), soda, chips, etc., then they can talk about "health". Smoking is not the #1 health condition in this county; obesity is. The only thing I buy at CVS is hair color or makeup on sale. Oh, I am sure that isn't "healthy" either. lol

Health police? Give it up. Bloomberg tried that in NYC from cigarettes to soda. Where did that get him?

This is NOTHING but people enjoying the thrill of attacking others. If their concern was the health of people, they would go after fat people first.

Tired of hearing this change-the-subject talking point in every discussion about smoking.

They have all sort of JUNK food at the register for vulnerable people. My husband is obese. When he goes to CVS to buy something else and sees candy at the register, he buys it. Don't tell me they want "health" when they are feeding this addiction right at the register.

VERY hypocritical.

candy and snack food was also brought up.. i guess ya can't please everyone...

"although a dispute has developed over just how toxic nicotine is, many authorities continue to assert that drop for drop it's as lethal as strychnine and three times deadlier than arsenic."

I'm having trouble equating candy with this deadly drug.

Learn to recognize it when you see it.

Does it really matter if, say, 1oz of nicotine would poison a person, when an average 'user' of nicotine consumes .01oz/day?

Any more than it would matter if 1oz of aspirin would kill a person, when the average aspirin 'user' consumes .01oz/day?

Or that 10000oz of H2O would kill a person, when the average 'user' consumes only 200oz of H2O a day?

Everything is toxic in a high enough dosage ... what matters is the amount that's normally consumed vs. the amount that's actually harmful.

There is no dispute on how toxic nicotine is. In doses used by tobacco users nicotine is about as toxic as caffeine. The dose makes the poison.

In recent years there has been thousands of emergency room visits because of caffeine overdose from energy drinks. I could probably count on my hand the number of nicotine issues in emergency rooms, and that is mostly from kids playing with nicotine gum.

they used to sell alcohol which was one of their biggest profitable items. the walgreen family decide to dump alcohol because several children were destructive alcoholics. after the family gave up controlling interest the new crew brought back alcohol .
walgreens is "evaluating" tobacco products.

Gotta make room for the soon-to-be-legal weed, after all!

That was but hey, these days, ya never know!

If CVS was really interested in improving public health they would stop selling combustible tobacco products but continue to sell non-combustable products as in smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes. It's the smoke that kills, not tobacco or nicotine. Smokeless tobacco is about 99% less harmful then inhaling smoke and they would do well to educate there costumers that switching to low risk alternatives is essentially as good as quitting.

Instead we get yet another prohibitionist abstinence only approach that pushes the myth that tobacco and nicotine are the problem. It's the lie that keeps on killing.