WHO chief calls for stepped-up measures against smoking

TOKYO, Japan - Gro Brundtland, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) which hosted an international conference on tobacco and public health in Kobe, western Japan, for four days from Nov. 15, speaks to reporters at the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Tokyo on Nov. 17. She said, ''Twenty-five years from now, if we don't do anything, 10 million people each year will die from smoking-related causes.''

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