Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken on causes such as obesity, gun control, smoking and clean energy. Can Michael Bloomberg make a difference? That has made Bloomberg Philanthropies the largest funder of tobacco-control efforts in the developing world. The biggest single success story may be Turkey; one survey showed that the number of smokers fell by 1.2 million from 2008 to 2012. In August, Margaret Chan, the director of the World Health Organization, named Bloomberg the WHO's global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2016 05:04 UTC