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IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Tobacco Control, Vol 12: Methods for Evaluating Tobacco Control Policies

This volume concentrates on evaluating the impact of societal level interventions to control tobacco use and it is offered as a guide to evaluators in the field. The Handbook covers how the effects of a policy are determined, the core constructs for understanding how and why a given policy works, the potential moderator variables to consider when evaluating a given policy and the data sources that might be useful for evaluation. The Handbook includes logic models outlining relevant constructs for evaluating the effectiveness of policies on tobacco taxation, smoke-free environments, tobacco product regulations, limits on tobacco marketing communications, product labeling, anti-tobacco public communication campaigns and tobacco use cessation interventions.

January 2008

Location(s): North America, U.S.

Content Type: Journal article

Topic(s): Marketing bans, Product regulation, Smoke-free policies, Supply-side issues and interventions, Tobacco control policies and programs

Authors(s): Ron Borland, K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., MPH, Timothy Baker, Ursula Bauer, Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Carolyn Dresler, Jean-Francois Etter, Geoffrey T. Fong, Ph.D., Gary A. Giovino, Emmanuel Guindon, Ph.D., Prakash C. Gupta, David Hammond, Gerard Hastings, Andrew Hyland, Luk Joossens, Alan Lopez, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Ann McNeill, Mark Parascandola, Armando Peruga, Patrick Petit, Megan E. Piper, James F. Thrasher, Charles (Wick) Warren

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