The National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organisation publishes comprehensive monograph “The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control”
Tobacco use remains one of the world’s leading causes of preventable premature death, including death from cancer. Globally, there are 1.1 billion tobacco smokers age 15 or older, and tobacco use burdens economies with more than US$ 1 trillion in health care costs and lost productivity annually. Although there are effective, evidence-based interventions to reduce tobacco use and related morbidity and mortality, these are not yet utilized to their full potential.
The monograph “The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control”
Above all, the research summarized in the monograph confirms that evidence-based tobacco control interventions make sense from an economic as well as a public health standpoint.
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