Health consequences of smoking (Resolution)

36 REGIONAL COMMITTEE: TWENTY-SECOND SESSIO~ 4. REQUESTS the Regional Director to keep governmants fully informed on the development of the various regional projects in this field; 5. RECOMMENDS that Member countries take the necessary action to plan programmes that will help meet the problems arising from drug dependence; 6. REQUESTS the Regional Director to provide all possible assistance to Member governments in their development of plans and programmes to meet this problem. Fifth meeting, 23 September 1971 WPR/RC22. R8 RESOLUTIONS OF REGIONAL INTEREST ADOPTED BY THE TWENTY-FOURTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY The Regional Committee TAKES NOTE of the following resolutions adopted by the Twenty- fourth World Health Assembly: WHA24.31 - The Development of the Medical Use of Ionizing Radiation WHA24.45 - Smallpox Eradication WHA24.47 Problems of the Human Environment WHA24.49 - Strategy for Health during the Second United Nations Development Decade WHA24.59 - Training of National Health Personnel Fifth meeting, 23 September 1971 WPR/RC22.R9 HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING The Regional Committee, Having considered resolution WHA24.48, adopted by the. Twenty- fourth World Health Assembly on "Health Consequences !of Smoking"; Holding that an international health meeting must demonstrate its concern for the reduction of the main causal factor in diseases related to smoking; REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 37 1. DECIDES that all those present at official meetings of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific be requested to refrain from smoking in rooms where such meetillga are held and that this policy be prominently displayed within the regional office building; 2. REQUESTS the Regional Director to study ways in which govern- ments may take action to reduce the health consequences of smoking and to report his recommendations to the twenty-third session of the Regional Committee. Fifth meeting, 23 September 1971 WPR/RC22.RlO CHOLERA The Regional Committee, Noting that cholera is still an impbrtant problem in the Region from the socio-economic point of view, that little progress has been made in its control and that in many countries in the Region sanitary cOIlditioIlS are favourable to its spread alld it remains endemic, 1. INVITES the attention of governmellts to resolution WHA24.26 of the World Health Assembly which emphasizes that high priority be given to long-term programmes aimed at the improvemellt of water supplies, ellvironmental sanitation alld personal hygiene, which will prevent cholera from becoming endemic in newly invaded areas and will ultimately lead to its elimination from endemic foci; 2. URGES governments to give full administrative and financial support to long-term programmes for the improvement of environmental sanitation and the fundamental research work for developing more effective preventive methods; 3. REMINDS Member States in the Region of the need to notify WHO immediately of the occurrence of any case of cholera; 4. RECOMMENDS that governments refrain from taking measures going beyond those of the International Health Regulations particularly with regard to the free movement of persons and good;; 5. REQUESTS the Regional Director to provide all possible assistance to governments encountering problems in connexion with the implementation of the above~eIltioned activity. Sixth meeting, 24 September 1971