Policies that aim to create a tobacco-free generation may significantly prevent mortality from lung cancer across the world, according to recent research led by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC.)
The study, published earlier this month by the Lancet Public Health scientific journal, looked into the impact on lung cancer mortality rates of banning tobacco sales to people born between 2006 and 2010 in 185 countries. It found that generational tobacco bans may prevent as many as 1.2m deaths by 2095, or 40.2% of all lung cancer deaths expected to occur in this particular generation within that date.
