Developing tobacco control
- Controlling smoking
- Banning smoking
- Preventing smoking
- Combating smoking
Description
Developing tobacco control involves implementing coordinated policies and interventions to reduce tobacco use and its health impacts. Essential actions include enforcing advertising bans, increasing taxes, mandating health warnings, restricting sales to minors, and supporting cessation programs. These measures aim to prevent initiation, encourage quitting, and protect non-smokers from exposure, thereby reducing disease burden, healthcare costs, and premature deaths associated with tobacco consumption. Effective tobacco control directly addresses addiction, public health risks, and social harms.
Implementation
Bhutan intends to be the first tobacco-free country by 2004. In 2003 12 out of 13 districts were self-declared tobacco-free. Bhutan's campaign has been based on religious and health education.
Cotidine (the derivative of nicotine in the body) levels in the urine of non-smokers in the USA dropped 75 percent in nonsmokers in the period 1991 to 2001.
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Web link
Development Bulletin No. 54 April 2001 Tobacco and development: Critical issues for the 21st century
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Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
Industry » Tobacco
Societal problems » Prevention
Societal problems » Restrictions
Recreation » Interests
Cybernetics » Control
Development » Development
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English
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W8972
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13389720
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194279
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Last update
Jan 18, 2023