Georgetown: The Guyana Chest Society in a release to mark World Tobacco Day stated, that the focus in 2011 is on implementing legislation that will protect the public from the health harms of smoking. Smoking kills almost 6 million people every year and the World Health Organization is urging all its member states, including Guyana, to pass legislation that will reduce and prevent these deaths. World No Tobacco Day is being observed this year on May 31st, as it has been every year since 1987. Darshanand Rampersaud is the Project Officer of the Caribbean Tobbaco Control Project, Guyana Chest Society. In his release to the press it was mentioned that a legally binding treaty to curb the devastating global tobacco epidemic has had amazing successes in its six years, but the international community should integrate the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) into the global development process in order to accelerate and strengthen its implementation.
The Guyana Chest Society under the auspices of Caribbean Tobacco Control Project with partners in Jamaica – the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados and the Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society have been supporting the project entitled “Implementing a picture based health warning system on cigarette packages”, which conforms with article 11 of World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s foremost public health treaty.
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