Bjartveit, Kjell, MD

Kjell Bjartveit has been a leader against tobacco smoking, not only in Norway but internationally, and a key person in the Norwegian Committee work leading to the Tobacco Act passed by the Parliament in 1973. He was Raporteur of the WHO Expert Committee on Smoking Control in 1978 and has been Temporary Adviser to the WHO on Tobacco and Health since then as well as President of the Governing Council of the International Non-Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco.