Gro H. Brundtland Quotations

Now we must see this convention come into force as soon as possible and countries must use it as the basis of their national tobacco-control legislation.

It is a treaty aimed at saving lives -- hundreds of millions of lives and in our own lifetime.

We must prepare for the possibility that people are deliberately harmed with biological or chemical agents.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat, ... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

To those young and not so young who might be debating whether or not to start smoking,

And you cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

We have every year in the last 20 years seen a new disease identified. There will be new threats of this kind, there will be new diseases coming. Therefore the capacity to identify and react, to respond quickly, is so important.

Osteoporosis, with its resultant complications, will soon represent a major public health problem for the developing, as well as the developed world.

Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becoming influenced.

This is an extremely significant step for international public health,

If the world fails to mount a more serious effort to fight infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance will increasingly threaten to send the world back to a pre-antibiotic age,

In order to achieve the best results to prevent osteoporosis and its complications, the prevention should ideally begin at the earliest possible age.

Although fighting in the Liberian capital has currently subsided, tens of thousands of men, women and children displaced by the recent fighting are still living in desperate conditions in rudimentary shelters with minimal access to health care.

We will try to stop the military activity in Chechnya before the election,

We have access to internal documents of tobacco companies that tell us that at the same time tobacco companies say they don't target young people, they are still trying to reach children.