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Health Promotion International, Vol. 16, No. 1, 95-98, March 2001
© Oxford University Press 2001

MEXICO

Statement by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General WHO, to the Fifth Global Conference on Health Promotion, Mexico City, 5 June 2000

Gro Harlem Brundtland

World Health Organization, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland

Address for correspondence: Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland

Your Excellency, President Ernesto Zedillo, Secretary of Health, José Antonio González Fernández, Dr Alleyne, Distinguished participants, colleagues, members of the press,

Last Wednesday, I was at a mass meeting in Bangkok. Standing on a platform I looked out over a sea of blue caps and white T-shirts. Wave upon wave of slogans against tobacco. Ten thousand health volunteers from villages all over Thailand had marched or bicycled to the city to mark the World No Tobacco Day. Health was being promoted on a giant scale. From local level to regional, from regional level to national, people were mobilized.

The speeches, though, weren't just about telling people not to smoke. They were not about local, or even national issues. They were about levels of taxation, about world-wide bans on advertising and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. These global responses support a growing national movement in Thailand: a movement against a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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