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The Ministry of Health of the Government of Uruguay has made tremendous achievements in tobacco control and, as a result of its leadership and the commitment of the president of Uruguay, Dr. Tabar Vzquez, Uruguay became the world's first middle-income country and the first country in the Americas to adopt a comprehensive smoke-free law. Since going smoke-free on March 1, 2006, Uruguay has served as a model of successful smoke-free implementation and enforcement for countries around the world. Its tobacco control success has not been limited to smoke-free policy earlier this year Uruguay was recognized by the World Health Organization as the country with the highest degree of compliance with provisions of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Ronald M. Davis, M.D., (United States) (1956-2008) was a truly inspirational public health and tobacco control leader. As a long-time officer and, eventually, president of the American Medical Association (AMA), he was a talented physician and a tireless advocate in the fight against tobacco. Dr. Davis contributed to global tobacco control as the inaugural editor of Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal published by the British Medical Association; as the North American editor of the British Medical Journal; as the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on tobacco control; as director of the U.S. Office on Smoking and Health; and as the lead editor of the latest National Cancer Institute report on tobacco and the media. Beyond these official duties, however, Dr. Davis was a friend and mentor to innumerable tobacco control researchers and advocates around the world, through whom his influence will continue for generations.

K. Srinath Reddy M.D., D.M., M.Sc., F.A.M.S., (India) is a practicing physician and a world leader in preventive cardiology and public health. He has provided outs
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