GENEVA adidas nmd runner womens shoes , July 19 (Xinhua) -- Though the population worldwide protected by tobacco control measures has grown almost five-fold than ten years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called on countries to do more to prioritize these life-saving policies.

In a latest report on the global tobacco epidemic published on Wednesday, the WHO said about 4.7 billion people, or 63 percent of the world's population, are covered today by at least one comprehensive tobacco control measure. Ten years ago, in 2007 nice kicks nmd retail , the number was only one billion, or 15 percent of the world's population.

However, tobacco use has still become the leading single preventable cause of death worldwide, killing over seven million people each year. Its economic costs are also enormous, totaling more than 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars in healthcare and lost productivity, according to the WHO.

Meantime adidas nmd nice kicks for sale , the tobacco industry continues to hamper government efforts to fully implement life- and cost-saving interventions, by, for example, exaggerating the economic importance of the tobacco industry, discrediting proven science, and using litigation to intimidate governments nmd adidas shoes for sale , the report says.

"Governments around the world must waste no time in incorporating all the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control into their national tobacco control programs and policies," says WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "They must also clamp down on the illicit tobacco trade, which is exacerbating the global tobacco epidemic and its related health and socioeconomic consequences."

The new report, focusing on monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies, finds that only one third of countries have comprehensive systems to monitor tobacco use. It suggests, however adidas originals nmd for sale , that even countries with limited resources can monitor tobacco use and implement prevention policies.

"Countries can better protect their citizens, including children, from the tobacco industry and its products when they use tobacco monitoring systems," says Dr. Douglas Bettcher, director of WHO's Department for the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases.

"Tobacco industry interference in government policy-making represents a deadly barrier to advancing health and development in many countries," says Dr. Bettcher adidas superstar rainbow black , "but by monitoring and blocking such activities, we can save lives and sow the seeds for a sustainable future for all."

Controlling tobacco use is a key part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims, among other targets, to reducing one third of premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases, including heart and lung diseases adidas superstar rainbow white , cancer and diabetes.

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Spain's chief prosecutor said Monday his office is seeking rebellion charges against the now-deposed leaders of Catalonia following last week's declaration of independence by the region's parliament.

Jose Manuel Maza said in a statement that prosecutors had filed a request at the National Court for the charges, which also include sedition and embezzlement.

A court now has to decide whether to accept the charges against the leaders, who were dismissed by the Madrid government on Friday.

The crime of rebellion is punishable in Spain by up to 30 years in prison.

The dispute over Catalan leaders' independence drive has dragged Spain into its deepest political crisis in decades.

Catalonia's now-dismissed regional president Carles Puigdemont said the result of an outlawed independence referendum on October 1 gave the region a mandate to declare independence.

Madrid and the Spanish courts said the referendum was illegal and that a unilateral independence declaration would violate the constitution.

Maza said in a ruling that the filing targeted "the principal political leaders of the Catalonia government."

It alleged that the leaders "with their decisions and deeds over the past two years have caused an institutional crisis that led to the unilateral declaration of independence carried out on October 27 with total contempt for our constitution."

The party of Puigdemont will run in a December regional election called by Spain's government in response to a declaration of independence by Catalan leaders, spokesperson Marta Pascal said Monday. "We will go to the polls on [December] 21. We will go with conviction and with a commitment to letting the Catalan people express themselves adidas superstar rainbow paint splatter ," Marta said.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday he had dissolved the Catalan parliament and called a snap vote for the region under sweeping powers approved by the Senate to stop the secessionist movement.

Separatist parties of all political stripes, from Puigdemont's conservatives to the far-left, have dominated the Catalan parliament since the last election in 2015, holding 72 seats out of 135.

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Comprising a lander and China's first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, Chang'e-3 lunar probe soft-landed on the moon on Saturday night and released Yutu hours later to the moon's surface. The two photographed each other Sunday night.

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