Tobacco Control articles

Recent articles from Tobacco Control

Accepting premature deaths from smoking: could partial reduction of some toxic components in cigarettes lead to reductions in premature deaths from smoking?(Editorial)(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... If one analyses the suggested means of solving the problem of premature death and disease caused by smoking, the strategies break down into four broad groups. Listed in the order in which I perceive these to have the highest probability of resulting in the most reduction in death to the least...

The decline of smoking in British portraiture.(Cover Essay)
March 1, 2004... Tobacco Control 2004;13:3-5. doi: 10.1136/tc.2003.006635 Objective: To examine time trends in the portrayal of smoking in a national collection of portraiture and to compare this with the similar trends for television and film. Methods: A compact disc produced by the National Portrait...

Argentina: "non-smokers' dictatorship".(News Analysis)
March 1, 2004... On 2 October last year, just five days after Argentina signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the magazine Veintitres ("Twenty-three") published a note on smoke-free environments. The main story of the magazine was illustrated on the front cover using the swastika under...

USA: make health insurance include cessation help, says poll.(News Analysis)
March 1, 2004... Many tobacco control advocates around the world regard California as one of the world's most successful pioneers in some aspects of tobacco control. It is easy to admire tobacco control programmes that may cost the equivalent of the entire health budget of many a small, less affluent country;...

Pakistan: weapons of mass deception.(News Analysis)
March 1, 2004... Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC), local subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), has been engaged in one of the most determined tobacco industry public relations blitzes ever seen in South Asia. Quite why it has mounted it now is unclear, though for some time the government has been making...