Global Hazards of Tobacco and the Benefits of Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Taxes
This chapter of the book Cancer discusses:
- the epidemiology of smoking-attributable diseases,
- smoking and cessation patterns worldwide,
- interventions to raise cessation rates rapidly (including tobacco taxes),
- cost effectiveness of tobacco control,
- implementation of tobacco control interventions.
November 2015
Location(s): Global
Content Type: Report
Topic(s): Cessation, Cost-effectiveness, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Health consequences, Prevalence and consumption, Tobacco control policies and programs, Tobacco use
Authors(s): Prabhat Jha, Mary MacLennan, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Ayda Aysun Yürekli, Chintanie Ramasundarahettige, Krishna Palipudi, Witold Zatoński, Samira Asma, Jhumur Sengupta
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