Cent Eur J Public Health 2012, 20(1):81-86 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3710

Comprehensive Tobacco Control Measures - the Overview of the Strategies Recommended by WHO

Adam Fronczak1, Kinga Polańska2, Bukola Usidame3, Dorota Kaleta4
1 Ministry of Health, Warsaw, Poland
2 Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland
3 Department of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
4 Department of Preventive Medicine, Medical University, Łódź, Poland

According to the World Health Organization, there are more than one billion smokers in the world, and tobacco is said to kill half of its users. The European Region of WHO, with only 15% of the world's population, faces nearly one third of the worldwide burden of tobacco related diseases. Millions of lives could be saved with effective and comprehensive tobacco control strategy. In response to this, the World Health Organization has offered a wide range of information and recommendations to governments, organizations, health-care professionals, and tobacco users and non-users worldwide. This paper is focusing on various activities that governments, organizations or even individuals can undertake to help smokers to quit and decrease percentages of tobacco users and save millions of lives.

Keywords: tobacco smoking, smoking cessation, treatment of tobacco dependence

Received: August 9, 2011; Revised: January 17, 2012; Accepted: January 17, 2012; Published: March 1, 2012  Show citation

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Fronczak A, Polańska K, Usidame B, Kaleta D. Comprehensive Tobacco Control Measures - the Overview of the Strategies Recommended by WHO. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2012;20(1):81-86. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3710. PubMed PMID: 22571025.
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