Past the tobacco issue and on towards NFOG 2010.

摘要

The April issue of the journal was a novelty, which the readers hopefully liked. A thematic and substantial volume done in collaboration with authors from several parts of the world and lead by experts on the issue in the Western hemisphere, from where tobacco was indeed originally introduced to Europe. Our colleague Jorge Tolosa from the University of Portland in Oregon, USA, helped us greatly getting this off along with our staff in the Editorial office and at the Publisher, Informa Healthcare. The new Director of WHO in Europe assisted by lending her strong support to this initiative. We are hoping that this publication, which is being kept Open Access for everyone all around the world for 6 months, will have an impact and help to generate further initiatives by doctors, other health care workers like midwives and nurses, and not least politicians. It is imperative to curb the use of tobacco and make it socially unacceptable everywhere, as is gradually happening in many high-income countries and even middle-income countries. This would surely be one of the best things we might do to further the health of women, children and families. Doctors have a duty to stand up as much as they can at a society level to bring about change in this direction.