Brazil has stepped up its fight against tobacco-related diseases by tightening the tobacco control legislation that has contributed to a 300 percent drop in the number of smokers between 1989 and 2013. The new regulations are aimed at continuing this decline in a country that still has 24 million smokers – 80 percent of whom began to smoke as teenagers.

Read news story at The Union's website [1]

Download the first ever Civil Society Report on the Situation of NCDs in Brazil [2] recently launched by ACT+ [3]

Photo courtesy: ACT+ Flashmob: Cigarro Não é Bala. #LimiteTabaco [4]