Non communicable diseases: the most urgent and immediate priority is the sanction of the National Tobacco Control Act.

-The Argentina Federation of Cardiology wants to reaffirm the importance of this day, to the alarming and growing statistics in our country which relate to a significant increase in the sale of cigarettes and whose causes are tobacco-related deaths. The FAC, through its foundation adheres to the request to punish the National Tobacco Control Law

Argentina, 2011-June world day without tobacco, social organizations requested the Chamber of deputies to move forward in the treatment of the National Tobacco Control Act, effective tool to combat the epidemic of tobacco, the main risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases. With average punishment of Senators and opinion of three committees of members, the project hopes to treatment in the Committee on Budgets. Completed this step, law should be dealt with in the enclosure to help ensure equitable conditions of health for all and all Argentines.

In a new article published in the medical journal The Lancet, priority actions for the crisis of non-communicable diseases ”, international organizations gathered in the Alliance against noncommunicable diseases (NCD Alliance) were identified to the tobacco control as a priority intervention more urgent and immediate in the fight against noncommunicable diseases. They stated that tobacco is the only common to all chronic disease risk factor and its control is far easier and faster can reverse the trend of increasing mortality.

The world no tobacco day returns to find our country without a national tobacco control Act. You can not continue waiting. “Every day that expands its adoption 110 people die of tobacco-related diseases,” lamented Veronica Schoj, national coordinator of ally. He added that “this Act is necessary and urgent because it protects the health of the entire population of the devastating consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to second-hand smoke.” The National Tobacco Control Law expected to be treated in members is an example of a law that raises economic and highly effective measures to save lives and contribute to a country more just and more equitable ”.

For specialists and organizations of health around the world, the growing global crisis of non-communicable diseases is an obstacle to the realization of the Millennium goals taking into account that the cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and respiratory diseases, deepen poverty, impede equity in health and threaten the economic stability and human security.

From all points of the country, more than 100 organizations that make up ally, asked urgently to the Committee on Budgets that treated the project promptly and without delay so that you can discuss on the premises and thus settle this historical debt of the Argentine State with a priority of Health publishes.