In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Nebraska and sever other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control conrol funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight...

A Report on Smoking Advertising and Promotion Bans in The Islamic Republic of IranIntroduction The Islamic Republic of Iran is a country of 1 648 000 square kilometres, with a population of some 70 000 000. Before the Islamic revolution in 1979, the country had a national State-owned tobacco...

The WHO European Country Profiles on Tobacco Control 2003 covers a wide spectrum of indicators on tobacco use and tobacco control policies in the WHO European Region. It reflects the changes that have occurred since the previous publication in 2001 and presents the current status of...

In 2004, The Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) partnered with Michigan and several other states to evaluate how unstable state financial climates were affecting state tobacco control funding reductions. Using both quantitative methodologies, information was collected from the eight state...

Minnesota was a pioneer in the tobacco control movement in the United States. Minnesota enjoyed early success with the passage of the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975 which created nonsmoking sections in public places, including workplaces and restaurants throughout the state. While modest...

This recommendation is the sixth in a series of recommendations formulated by the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg).1 The purpose of this recommendation is to promulgate the principles that should guide the development of the laboratory capacity required to enable...

This is the Seventh Annual Report, which evaluates and reports implications for smoking prevention, cessation, protection, denormalization, monitoring, and the Ontario Tobacco Strategy as a whole.

In the 1990s several American states passed term limits on legislators with the stated intention of reducing the influence of wealthy industries on career legislators. Although term limits in the United States do not have a direct relationship to public health, the tobacco industry anticipated...

China produces about one-third of the world's supply of tobacco leaf and is the largest consumer of cigarettes. Any discussion of tobacco control in China requires an understanding of the government's role in this sector because China's tobacco production and cigarette marketing are all under...