The effects of tobacco control policies on global smoking prevalence.

ABSTRACT: Substantial global effort has been devoted to curtailing the tobacco epidemic over the past two decades, especially after the adoption of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control¹ by the World Health Organization in 2003. In 2015, in recognition of the burden resulting from tobacco use, strengthened tobacco control was included as a global development target in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development². Here we show that comprehensive tobacco control policies-including smoking bans, health warnings, advertising bans and tobacco taxes-are effective in reducing smoking prevalence; amplified positive effects are seen when these policies are implemented simultaneously within a given country. We find that if all 155 countries included in our counterfactual analysis h

SUBMITTER: Flor LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7884287 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature