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Barbados: Gale of change
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In recognition of outstanding achievement in cancer education and prevention, leading to the one of the lowest recorded national smoking rates in the world, Dr Tony Gale, director of the tobacco control programme of the Barbados Cancer Society, was awarded a World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco Free World gold medal in May.
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Dr Gale began his work with the society in 1985, and has since been a
prominent media spokesman, leading the only programme in the country
that has continuously worked on tobacco. Information has been
disseminated via the news media, press articles, 'phone-in programmes,
radio and television advertising spots, and cessation groups. The
trends in Barbados have been spectacular. Surveys by government
agencies showed that between 1982 and 1993, tobacco consumption in
Barbados declined by 32%, with daily smoking prevalence among adults
of 15-60 years of only 9% in 1993. Admittedly, 82% of adults said
they had never smoked, but Dr Gale's work
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