By Thomas J. Glynn, PhD, Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is participating this week in an important international workshop, 'Toward Strengthening Tobacco Dependence Treatment in the Eastern Mediterranean Region,' being held in Amman, Jordan. The Society is a co-sponsor of the Workshop, with the King Hussein Cancer Center, the Jordanian Ministry of Health, Global Bridges (a joint initiative of the Society and the Mayo Clinic), WHO-Geneva, and WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office. Thomas Glynn, PhD, Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer of the American Cancer Society will be addressing the Workshop on a variety of issues, including cancer control advocacy, e-cigarettes, youth and young adult tobacco use, and combating the tobacco industry.
The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, to complete the development of a national tobacco dependence treatment guideline for Jordan, in keeping with its obligations as a signatory of the U.N. treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and to serve as a model for use by other countries in the region. And, second, to present the latest scientific data on tobacco control and treatment issues to representatives of more than 20 Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries, in order to provide them with the necessary information to establish or strengthen tobacco control programs in their countries. Tobacco control issues in the EMR are distinguished by exceptionally high prevalence rates of traditional cigarettes by males and extensive waterpipe/hookah use by both men and women.
HRH Princess Dina Mired, Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, gave the keynote address at the Workshop. Princess Dina Mired, an international cancer control advocate who has had a long-term collaboration with the Society, emphasized that we know what to do to reduce the terrible toll of tobacco use, but need the political will to take the necessary actions that can prevent the premature deaths of more than one billion people worldwide during this century.
Follow-up to the Workshop will include the formal endorsement of the national tobacco dependence guideline by the Jordanian Ministry of Health, distribution of the guideline to the other countries in the EMR, and follow-up workshops on how to develop a similar guideline in their countries. These workshops will be conducted by the King Hussein Cancer Center, a grantee of the Society and of Global Bridges.
Co-sponsorship of the EMR Workshop and the grant to the King Hussein Cancer Center represent the Society's continuing commitment to collaboration and support for cancer control and tobacco control with a wide range of global partners.
The American Cancer Society is participating this week in an important international workshop, 'Toward Strengthening Tobacco Dependence Treatment in the Eastern Mediterranean Region,' being held in Amman, Jordan. The Society is a co-sponsor of the Workshop, with the King Hussein Cancer Center, the Jordanian Ministry of Health, Global Bridges (a joint initiative of the Society and the Mayo Clinic), WHO-Geneva, and WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office. Thomas Glynn, PhD, Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer of the American Cancer Society will be addressing the Workshop on a variety of issues, including cancer control advocacy, e-cigarettes, youth and young adult tobacco use, and combating the tobacco industry.
The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, to complete the development of a national tobacco dependence treatment guideline for Jordan, in keeping with its obligations as a signatory of the U.N. treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and to serve as a model for use by other countries in the region. And, second, to present the latest scientific data on tobacco control and treatment issues to representatives of more than 20 Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries, in order to provide them with the necessary information to establish or strengthen tobacco control programs in their countries. Tobacco control issues in the EMR are distinguished by exceptionally high prevalence rates of traditional cigarettes by males and extensive waterpipe/hookah use by both men and women.
HRH Princess Dina Mired, Director General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, gave the keynote address at the Workshop. Princess Dina Mired, an international cancer control advocate who has had a long-term collaboration with the Society, emphasized that we know what to do to reduce the terrible toll of tobacco use, but need the political will to take the necessary actions that can prevent the premature deaths of more than one billion people worldwide during this century.
Follow-up to the Workshop will include the formal endorsement of the national tobacco dependence guideline by the Jordanian Ministry of Health, distribution of the guideline to the other countries in the EMR, and follow-up workshops on how to develop a similar guideline in their countries. These workshops will be conducted by the King Hussein Cancer Center, a grantee of the Society and of Global Bridges.
Co-sponsorship of the EMR Workshop and the grant to the King Hussein Cancer Center represent the Society's continuing commitment to collaboration and support for cancer control and tobacco control with a wide range of global partners.
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