<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Philanthropist Michael Bloomberg today announced that he will spend 20 million US dollars to launch an anti-tobacco watchdog to detect and expose deceptive practices by the tobacco industry. Mr Bloomberg, an Ambassador for the World Health Organization, WHO, said, over the last decade tobacco control measures have saved nearly 35 million lives.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bloomberg's charitable giving organisation accuses the tobacco industry of seeking to legitimise itself in the eyes of policymakers, of marketing to children, and pushing cigarette alternatives for which the health care remains inconclusive.&nbsp; Along with WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, Bloomberg will launch the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Cape Town today.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>