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...

With a total population of more than 1.3 billion people where more than 31% of adults smoke, China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. We adopt a life-course perspective to study the economics of smoking behavior in China. We use data from the China Health and...

Our study documents the effectiveness of anti-smoking campaigns on various age groups and attempts to shed some light on the mechanism by which community interventions operate and affect smokers. We re-examine evidence from a large scale National Cancer Institute community-wide intervention...