Will there be a World Without Tobacco?

Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day. Tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death in the world today. Yet it kills nearly 6 million people each year, which includes some 600,000 non-smokers who die due to exposure to second-hand smoke. In 2004, children accounted for 31 percent of these deaths.

Almost half of the world’s children (through no fault …