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Gates burns cash to fight cigarettes
Friday, July 25, 2008 (GST)

BILL AND MELINDA GATES have announced they are joining Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, in a $US500 million ($522 million) campaign against smoking in the developing world. BILL AND MELINDA GATES have announced they are joining Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, in a $US500 million ($522 million) campaign against smoking in the developing world. As smoking has become less acceptable and profitable in richer countries, tobacco companies have expanded in countries where there are few restrictions and little in the way of public health warnings. Each year, smoking is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people worldwide; by 2030, more than 80 per cent of them will live in low- and middle-income countries. The Gates Foundation says the poorest households in Bangladesh spend almost 10 times as much on tobacco as they do on education. The Gates money will be used specifically to extend campaigning into China and India, and to try to stem tobacco in Africa. In Beijing, smoking in public places has been banned for the Olympics, but China has 350 million smokers, a third of the world's total, and a million Chinese a year die from tobacco. India has 700,000 smoking-related deaths a year, expected to rise to 930,000 by 2010. The campaign is a departure for Mr Gates. His foundation has been committed primarily to finding solutions to health problems, such as vaccines for killer diseases. But he is joining forces with Mr Bloomberg, who restricted smoking in New York in 2002 and went on to found an anti-tobacco initiative working to get worldwide bans.