Editing Christmas seal (section)

== Other countries ==
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Nearly one hundred different lung associations worldwide issue Christmas seals. Many different countries issue their own Christmas seals, as well as cities, states and territories. Green's Catalog, considered by many collectors as the bible of US and worldwide  tuberculosis Christmas seal collecting would distinguish them as national versus local Christmas seals. Many tuberculosis seal issuing societies are members of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, which holds a Christmas seal contest for best design among their Organizational and Constituent seal issuing members at their annual World Conference on Lung Health.<ref>[[#union|International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2020]]</ref>
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Korea, after much effort to sell the idea in of raising funds to combat tuberculosis there, issued its first Christmas seal in 1933. Charged with this effort, the Korean Medical Missionary Association formed a committee. All religions and nationalities in Korea were represented, and it received funds and aid from the Church of England, the United Church of Canada as well as various health organizations within Korea itself.<ref>[[#hall|Hall, 1933]], Essay</ref>

Mexico,  through the Comite Nacional de Lucha contra la Tuberculosis, in their effort to fight the dreaded lung disease, issued its first  Christmas seals in 1943.<ref>{{cite web |title=William J Kozersky, Philatelist |access-date=February 7, 2024 |url=https://www.kozersky.com/store.php/kozersky/ct199813/mexico-tb-seals}}</ref>
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