The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean has been working for years with national, regional and international partners to address tobacco health hazards and to support all national tobacco control measures. Yet, success in reducing the rates of morbidity and mortality attributed to...

This report examines the proposed global standards for tobacco marketing and assesses whether it will lead to the responsible marketing of tobacco products. It concludes that the proposed measures will not lead to any substantive changes in current tobacco advertising practices and will not...

Ross A Hammond, Ruth LevineEconomic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USAAbstract: Over the past several decades, obesity has grown into a major global epidemic. In the United States (US), more than two-thirds of adults are now overweight and one-third is obese. In this...

In 1999 the World Bank published a landmark study on the economics of tobacco control, Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control (CTE), which concluded that tobacco control brings unprecedented health benefits without harming economies, threatening the transnational...

• An estimated 12,000 U.K. nonsmokers die annually from secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home, at work, and in social venues. In fact, SHS pollution now causes as many deaths annually as did the great London Smog 50 years ago and triple the annual number of road deaths from traffic...

The Tobacco Attitudes and Media Survey was conducted to assess the degree to which the current media program was reaching adult Delawareans. While awareness doesn’t necessarily translate into action, it is a necessary first step. The program is primarily focused on promoting awareness of...

Este informe pretende describir el problema fundamental de desigualdad reflejado y sostenido por el uso en EE.UU. de etiquetas sólo de texto y en inglés. Nuestra investigación demuestra una discriminación lingüística innegable en las advertencias de salud sobre el tabaco. El uso de...