Michael Bloomberg has just launched a multi-million dollar fund to help smaller countries fight legal battles with tobacco companies
In co-operation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign to fight the tobacco industry in small Latin American countries like Uruguay.
Studies in these countries show considerably fewer smokers than Michael Bloomberg’s home of New York, but countries like Uruguay with a population of just three million people, their government is embroiled in a long running and expensive legal battle with the cigarette industry over its anti-smoking laws. In a recent BBC interview Bloomberg stated,
We are in this to help countries that can’t afford to defend themselves against an industry which will try to kill a billion people this century, if that isn’t a noble cause I don’t know what is. You can talk about saving society but you have to translate that into action.”
The reason the fund has been established by Gates and Bloomberg is because, although tobacco consumption is falling in the west, the opposite is true in the developing world.
-Infinite Wiz(@InfiniteWiz)
