Russia has banned cigarette advertising

The Russian government has approved a draft law on the country, the Framework Convention of the World Health Organization's Tobacco Control, reports RIA Novosti. Document was adopted by the WHO in 2003, a total ban on advertising and other methods to increase the sale of tobacco products. Currently, the Convention has 172 countries, including the European Union. Russia is one of the few countries that have not ratified the document. Member State, a total ban on tobacco advertising within five years after accession. WHO says smoking is one of the global threats to the health and welfare of the world's population. Kill According to the international organization, each year from smoking-related illnesses more than 5 million people. If the trend of increased use of tobacco products in the world to continue, by 2020 the number of smoking caused premature deaths rises to 10 million per year, and by 2030, smoking will kill one of the main factors for premature death, his world. According to the deputy director of the Health Committee Nikolai Gerasimenko, in recent years, the production and the consumption of tobacco products in Russia is growing steadily. If before 1995 the annually produced 200 and 250 billion cigarettes were consumed, but by 2006 this number increased respectively by 413 and 375 billion euros.