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Special communication
The 1998 Subic Bay international declaration of support for action to control tobacco
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From the fifth Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) conference, 23–26 November 1998
The 330 participants in the fifth Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) conference from 22 countries and areas recognise:
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that tobacco is an addictive substance and the most important single preventable cause of premature death
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that the Asia-Pacific region currently consumes half of global cigarette production and will suffer dramatic increases in tobacco-caused diseases in the next 20–30 years …