Canada's perceived lack of leadership on global tobacco control

Military line leadership and tobacco control: perspectives of military policy leaders and tobacco control managers.

Despite progress in policy changes, tobacco use rates are still high in the military. Little is known about the views of those who create and implement tobacco control policies within the Department of Defense. These individuals determine what policy initiatives will be developed, prioritized, and implemented. We conducted key informant interviews with 16 service-level policy leaders (PLs) and ...

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 ...

Tobacco Control in Turkey Story of commitment and leadership

A global health perspective on the future of tobacco control.

In this age of globalization, the outcome of tobacco control in one country is connected to events on the global stage. Tobacco control has become an increasingly consolidated global movement, catalyzed by the global tobacco control treaty, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) as well as the Bloomberg Initiative. This global collective effort is necessa...

The economics of global tobacco control.

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