2008年7月、マイクロソフト社会長、ビル・ゲイツ氏およびニューヨーク市長、マイケル・ブルームバーグ氏は
記者会見の席上で、新たな世界規模での禁煙活動資金として540億円（ $500 million）の資金を提供する
ことを申し出た。


Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates and New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg
Source: Wikipedia and Associated Press.

The Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates and the New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money
and pouring $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.


Video New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg

Not merely content to ban smoking in bars, restaurants and stadiums here, Mayor Bloomberg is joining with
Bill Gates to spread his anti-smoking reinforcements around the world. The multi billionaire pair announced
in July 2008 a joint $500million campaign to persuade smokers in Asia, Africa and across the globe to put
down their cigarettes. There are now 300,000 fewer smokers in New York City than there were six years ago,"
Bloomberg said, crediting his ban on smoking in bars among other anti-smoking efforts.

The progress we've achieved here in New York helped convince me to take on the global initiative.
I believe that a world in which everyone is aware of the destructiveness of tobacco and empowered to
avoid it is within our reach."Bloomberg and Gates, who have a combined net worth of $70 billion, announced
the joint campaign in a slick midtown presentation. It featured a video of worldwide efforts, such as a
smoking ban at the upcoming Beijing Olympics and a campaign in Brazil to print disturbing images on
cigarette packs to illustrate the dangers of smoking. "Tobacco is a very, very big killer," Gates said,
citing statistics that tobacco is behind more preventable deaths around the world than tuberculosis, AIDS
and malaria combined. For Gates, the announcement was his first since relinquishing the reins at Microsoft
and committing himself full-time to philanthropy.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will devote $125 million over five years to the anti-smoking effort,
including $24 million that it will hand over to Bloomberg's foundation to administer. For Bloomberg, the
announcement represents a dramatic expansion of a smaller effort he launched with his foundation in 2005.
At the time, he invested $125million in efforts such as anti-smoking TV ads and campaigns to raise tobacco
taxes in countries like China and India, where smoking rates are high. He's now investing another $250 million
over four years. Gates said his money will fund some work in countries with high smoking rates, and focus
on poor and developing countries, where smoking is not as prevalent but has been rising.
Source: NYDailyNews.com.July 23, 2008.


ニューヨーク市では2002年にブルームバーク市長がレストラン、バーでの全面禁煙規制条例を施行し、
市公衆衛生局からの積極的な広報活動の結果、ニューヨーク市に居住する30万人の喫煙者が禁煙した。

こうした喫煙規制をアジア、アフリカ諸国を始め、全世界に広げ、タバコの持つ健康破壊の知識を共有すること
により、喫煙行為から人々を救うことが出来ると述べた。ブラジルでのタバコ包装には喫煙の危険性を画像で
表現したことにより成果があがっている。タバコは非常に巨大な殺人者（ a very, very big killer ）であり、
タバコによる疾病は喫煙をやめることにより防止することが出来る。

ビルゲイツは＄125million を、喫煙率の高い中国、インド、バングラデシュ、インドネシアなどでの禁煙
キャンペーンとタバコ税値上げを広報するテレビ広告に投資し、この他に4年間かけて$250 million を
喫煙率の高い途上国での禁煙活動に投資することを宣言している。
資料引用：　2008年7月23日　ＡＰ通信


Divergence of opinion about smoking, between the New York Mayor Bloomberg and the Tokyo Governor Ishihara


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The article was written in July 2008, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.