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Article: Business Briefing.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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Byline: Rocky staff and wire reports
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Gates, Bloomberg funding global plan to reduce smoking
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.
The philanthropists, who have a combined worth of more than $70 billion, said Wednesday that the money will help efforts in developing countries where tobacco use is highest. There are more than 1 billion smokers worldwide.
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