Global challenges in tobacco control

Tobacco control--challenges and prospects.

The need for action to stop tobacco production and consumption is patent. At present, about 4 million people a year die of tobacco-related diseases (1). WHO epidemiologists predict that unless there is a dramatic change in present trends tobacco will be killing 8.4 million people a year by the late 2020s (2). This month the Bulletin joins the BMJ and JAMA in a global theme issue to take a look ...

Tobacco control in Poland-successes and challenges.

For many years, tobacco smoking was the major single avoidable cause of premature mortality in Poland. In the 1970s and 1980s, Poland was a country with an extremely high prevalence of smoking and lung cancer mortality among men in the world. By 1990, over 40% of Polish men died prematurely from smoking-attributed diseases. However, the enforcement of comprehensive tobacco-control measures and ...

asthma control challenges: global and national perspectives

Challenges of Tobacco Control Program in Iran.

BACKGROUND This study assessed the status of cigarette marketing in Iran as well as the attitude of smokers toward smoking and the policies and tobacco control programs in the country. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 3480 volunteer smokers in six provinces, using a stratified cluster random sampling method. The study population consisted of smokers who used at least one ci...

Moving beyond global tobacco control to global disease control.

INTRODUCTION More than 60 years have now passed since epidemiological studies first linked tobacco smoking to lung cancer; the 50-year anniversaries of the 1962 Royal College of Physicians of London and 1964 US Surgeon General’s reports, which indicted smoking as causing lung cancer, are approaching. 2 While millions of people have since died prematurely from smoking, the policy and prevention ...