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Bloomberg Philanthropies Pledges $220M Over 4 Years To Global Anti-Tobacco Initiative
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday announced his charitable foundation will "spend $220 million over the next four years to discourage tobacco use in developing countries, as he seeks to promote strategies around the world that curbed smoking in his city," the Wall Street Journal reports (McKay, 3/21). Bloomberg announced "the new funding for Bloomberg Philanthropies on Thursday at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore," Reuters writes, noting "[t]he commitment takes the foundation's total pledge to the cause to almost $600 million" (Begley et al., 3/22).
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