09/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - A United Nations report diffused on 8 June affirms that the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and eliminating deadly diseases by 2015, are being undermined by the rise in tobacco consumption, Terraviva Europe states. According to this eighteen-page report by the UN AdHoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control: "Tobacco increases poverty, and tobacco products tend to be more widely used among the poor".