As the new health-e Tobacco Control and Cancer journalist, Lesley was surprised to find herself smoking in this posed pic. Here is the first of her blogs.

Now that the UN Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) conference has come to an end, delegates should remember that more than 1 billion people will die due to smoking cigarettes this century. Cigarettes are the only consumer product, that when used as intended, will kill half its consumers. See Press release by the African Tobacco Control Consortium (ATCC) and the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA)