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Tobacco is truly a global problem.
WHO estimates that each year about 4 million people die from tobacco-related illness. In fact, more people are expected to die from tobacco-related illness over the next 30 years than from AIDS, automobile accidents, maternal mortality, homicide and suicide combined. Just as infectious diseases know no political boundaries, leaving individual countries incapable of effectively containing them, the tobacco epidemic also requires international cooperation if it is to be controlled. Cigarette smuggling across national borders. The increased liberalization of trade and investment, which has provided tobacco companies the opportunity to expand their operations.