A dedicated implementation mechanism can eliminate the tobacco from the lives of human being (2025)

New Directions in Tobacco Control

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) ESTIMATES THAT 4 MILLION people will die of tobacco-related illness in 2001 and that this number will climb to 10 million per year by the 2020s. 1 Despite this overwhelming mortality, a significant gap exists between the scientific consensus on the dangers of tobacco use and the political reality of what governments have been able to achieve in terms of tobacco control. Last year, a US Supreme Court judgment stripped the Food and Drug Administration of its authority to regulate tobacco. The past few months have revealed a more insidious setback: a recent study found that the $206 billion master settlement agreement between 46 states and the tobacco industry, which was designed to fund a nationwide campaign to curb tobacco use, has had little effect on cigarette advertising in magazines and on the exposure of young people to these advertisements. 2 Tobacco control involves both politics and science-and since the scientific evidence supporting tobacco regulation is sound and well documented, this suggests that there has been a breakdown in the political process. The health sector and its allied antitobacco forces have been stymied in their efforts to bring about enactment of effective tobacco control measures. While the consensus opinion of the medical community about tobacco-related mortality reflects the strength of epidemiologic and scientific evidence, this opinion does not prescribe any assured method for effecting political change. Having conclusively established the harm that results from tobacco use, the medical community must now find political direction in its antitobacco initiative if it is to be effective.

Toward a comprehensive long term nicotine policy

Tobacco Control, 2005

Challenges and lessons learnt from a workplace based program to control tobacco use in

Tobacco 21 - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The New England journal of medicine, 2014

" Utility of Tobacco Control Program among Tobacco Sellers "

India records about 8 lakhs tobacco consumption related death every year (ICMR, report). The major tobacco control program includes creating awareness, reduction in tobacco production as well as banning of tobacco use in public places & control of tobacco distribution system. During the 2013s there will be estimated 1 million tobacco consumption related deaths in India and about 70% of deaths in pre-elderly consumers. Currently, tobacco is responsible for 1 in 5 of all male deaths in middle age. The Govt. of India has taken many initiatives & implemented different laws in this regard. However, very little improvement is seen suggesting an ineffective implementation of the law. The authors suggest that significant change can be gained only if the existing law is implemented effectively, therefore a separate law enforcing authority & a separate tobacco control cell at various levels may play a vital role in this regard.

Global policy progress in Article 20 of World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) on Smokeless Tobacco (SLT)

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018

Tobacco challenge and implementation research in EC funded projects

Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 2019

is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of tobacco use, prevention and cessation that can promote a tobacco free society. The aim of the journal is to foster, promote and disseminate research involving tobacco use, prevention, policy implementation at a regional, national or international level, disease development-progression related to tobacco use, tobacco use impact from the cellular to the international level and finally the treatment of tobacco attributable disease through smoking cessation.

Progress and Opportunities in Tobacco Control

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2006

Much progress has been made in reducing tobacco use in the United States. Despite the continuing challenges of tobacco control and the massive burden of illness, death, and economic costs caused by tobacco products, there are now unprecedented opportunities to prevent and treat tobacco dependence through a combination of interventions that have proven effective at both the population and individual levels. This report briefly reviews population trends in tobacco use by youth and adults, describes some of the policy measures that have proven effective in comprehensive tobacco control, and discusses the role of clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of tobacco dependence in patients.

Policy action for health professionals involvement in tobacco control

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018

MAJOR CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF WHO FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL (FCTC) IN INDIA