Moving beyond global tobacco control to global disease control: Table 1

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 ...

Global Tobacco Control: An integrated approach to global health policy.

Following the development discussion in the last volume on the 'politics of health', Jennifer Prah Ruger argues that the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) represents a shift in global health policy that recognizes the importance of addressing health needs on multiple fronts and integrating public policies into a comprehensive set of health improvement strategies. She argues that th...

Global warming comes to tobacco control.

In the annals of this journal, few articles have struck me quite as unusual in their subject matter as the contribution by Smith et al in this issue. The idea that tobacco contributes to global warming is not new. Geist long ago alerted us to the costs of deforestation caused by the growth and flue-curing of tobacco, and of course smokers release enormous amounts of noxious gases into the atmos...

Development assistance for global tobacco control.

BACKGROUND By 2030, the tobacco epidemic will be responsible for over eight million deaths worldwide per year, with 80% of those deaths occurring in low-resource countries. Despite the magnitude of the problem, little is known about the funding for global tobacco control. METHODS To estimate the amount of tobacco control funding, we created an integrated database based on information provided...

Global regulatory strategies for tobacco control.