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Is this sentence right? "World No-smoking Day" was funded by members states of WHO in 1987,so that people all around the world could focus on the tobacoo epidemic and guard against the disease and death it caused."

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There are some spelling and grammar errors: "World No-Smoking Day" was funded by *member* states ("member" is an adjective and doesn't go into the plural) of *the* WHO in 1987 so that people all around the world could focus on the -tobacco epidemic- and fight against the disease and death it *causes*." "tobacco epidemic" is a weird phrase as epidemics, generally, apply to diseases. For example you could have an AIDS epidemic, a tuberculosis epidemic.
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like julie said, grammatically very correct but yes, member countries will suit it better. "World No-smoking Day" was funded by members countries* of WHO in 1987,so that people all around the world could focus on the tobacoo epidemic and guard themselves* against the disease and death it caused."==this is my version of the statement. :)
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Yes, your sentence is grammatically correct. However, I would just add that "member states" suggests one global world in which we have only states rather than countries. I suggest that "disease" should be "diseases" since tobacco causes so many problems, and change "caused" to present tense "causes" since it is an on-going problem.

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