WHO CODE
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL meeting of healthcare associations at the World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed a code of conduct calling on doctors to not only advise patients to quit smoking, but to give up tobacco themselves. "Studies show that even brief counselling by health professionals on the dangers of smoking is one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing" tobacco use, said the WHO.
AN INTERNATIONAL meeting of healthcare associations at the World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed a code of conduct calling on doctors to not only advise patients to quit smoking, but to give up tobacco themselves. "Studies show that even brief counselling by health professionals on the dangers of smoking is one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing" tobacco use, said the WHO.
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