World Health Organisation
Today we would be shocked if cigarette and alcohol companies targeted their advertising to children.
We would be shocked because the evidence is there to support such outrage. We know that tobacco kills and that alcohol consumption can have grave short-term and long-term health consequences.
So shouldn’t we be equally shocked when our children are targeted for junk food marketing? The evidence is there.
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The World Health Organisation was established by the United Nations today in 1948.
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