Taking On Tobacco - Lung Cancer in Uruguay

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For more than 65 years we have known that smoking kills. So how can it be that a Mexican wave of tobacco use, disease and death is heading at breakneck speed towards the world’s poorest people? Millions will die of lung cancer and it is hard to grasp that this is a largely preventable disease.

Uruguay in South America could hold the key to breaking this wave. Under a President who is a cancer specialist they introduced some of the most radical tobacco control policies in the world and attracted the wrath of corporate tobacco giant, Philip Morris, in the process. Anu Anand reports on Uruguay’s crusade to save its citizens.

Image: Roberto, life long smoker who has lung cancer Credit: Anu Anand

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1:17.0	series that investigates the most common global cancers and how they're being
1:21.5	tackled. Today I'm in South America, in Uruguay, the home of the
1:27.3	Tango. Around me in this club in the sultry, their expressions halfway between agony and ecstasy are locked together.
1:47.0	Here, they are insistent. They invented the tango, even if their their neighbors the Argentinians take all the credit.
1:55.8	But what no one contests is that this tiny country of just under 3.5 million people is a global
2:06.9	leader in tackling a scourge that has already led to several hundred million
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