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Trends in Telemedicine & E-health

Optimistic Goal: Whether Possible or Tenable for Thailand?

  • Open or CloseSomchai Bovornkitti*

    Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Thailand

    *Corresponding author: Somchai Bovornkitti, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Fellow of the Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Thailand

Submission: August 26, 2019;Published: September 04, 2019

Abstract

For the record, most welcome news is contained in a recent official statement of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care of the United Kingdom: it has set an ambition for England to go “smoke-free” by the year 2030. This ambition has been encouraged by epidemiological data showing a progressive decline in the prevalence of adult cigarettes smoking in the country since 2011 (Figure 1).

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