Dr. Sid E. Williams, Life University President, to

Present Opening Address to World Health Organization Forum onTobacco Marietta, Ga. (PROTEXT) - The fight to reduce smoking and theuse of tobacco products has gone worldwide with the World HealthOrganization's recently announced Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI).The movement will have center stage at WHO's 52nd Session of theWorld Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland May 17-26, when Dr.Sid E. Williams, founder and president of Life University inMarietta, GA, will deliver the opening address to the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum on Health. "Several decades of research have demonstrated that cigarettesmoking is now the major cause of preventable deaths in developedcountries," said Dr. Williams. "I am very pleased that LifeUniversity can join with the WHO in finding solutions to thiscritical health care issue." Tobacco products kill 4 million people each year, according toWHO statistics. More than 70 percent of these deaths take placein the developing world. The WHO, under its new Director General, Dr. Gro HarlemBrundtland, has identified the tobacco issue as one of her majorpriorities. To demonstrate the importance of this issue, theTobacco Free Initiative (TFI) is headed by one of WHO's seniorpolicy makers, Dr. Derek Yach. Dr. Williams and a delegation from Life University, which is aco-sponsor of the event, will participate in the Forum on Healthwhere a number of technical presentations will be made on theFramework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Life University is home of the world's largest school ofchiropractic. It has had a long relationship with the WHO as acoordinating center and data collection center for variousresearch initiatives in world health. ots Original Text Service:Life University Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact:Randy Southerland, Life University Public Relations (USA) 770-426-2875, or email, rsouther@life.edu Web site:http://www.life.edu

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