Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates Announced on Wednesday, July 23rd joint Efforts to combat the global tobacco Epidemic. To combined investment of $ 500 million will help governments in Developing Countries Implement providing police and Increase Funding for tobacco control. New
York .- The billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, today pledged $ 375 million to combat smoking, especially among developing countries.
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, will provide $ 375 million to combat smoking, which each year kills more than five million people.
The two philanthropists in New York today announced its contribution to combating a habit that kills each year more than five million people, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
Specifically, Gates will provide $ 125 million and 250 million Bloomberg to fund other projects to help people quit smoking, snuff ban ads, protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and increase taxes that taxed.
"The diseases caused by snuff has become one of the biggest challenges in public health in developing countries," said the founder of Microsoft in announcing the donation made through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The amount contributed by Bloomberg adds another $ 125 million that the mayor of New York, ex-smoker already committed for the same reason two years ago.
The grants announced today will be undertaken over the next four years and are intended primarily to developing countries, including India and China, where smoking is increasing.
"I am delighted that Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (through its joint foundation) to support one of the greatest efforts in public health today," said Bloomberg, adding that the grants "will help governments to cope to the epidemic of snuff. "
The Bill and Melinda Gates recalled in a statement that when New York became a "city without snuff "in 2002, no other state or country had similar rules.
But now U.S. 24 states (plus Washington DC) completely prohibited in bars and restaurants snuff, while Uruguay, United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Italy and Ireland are countries "smoke free", according to the foundation.
