Webinar: Investing in Tobacco Control is Investing in Cancer Control

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

If you want to learn more about the place of tobacco control within the broader cancer control paradigms, see what the experts from the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Global…

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The Illicit Trade Debate: Why the Tobacco Industry Distorts What Truly Protects Public Health

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

A strange argument has consistently arisen when people discuss the illicit trade in tobacco products: the tobacco industry, private research firms, some public health advocates, many law enforcement officials and…

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To Stop Illicit Tobacco Trade, We Must Focus on Reducing Demand for all Cigarettes

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

How do we stop the illicit trade in tobacco products? The best and most simple answer is to implement comprehensive tobacco control measures to reduce demand for all cigarettes. The…

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A Sea Change in US Youth Tobacco Use

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

US high school students are now using e-cigarettes at a higher rate than combustible cigarettes, according to the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey, published April 16, 2015 in Morbidity and Mortality…

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Why the Atlas Cites IHME’s Tobacco Use Estimates

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

The 5th Edition of The Tobacco Atlas aims to be a transparent clearinghouse of the best available data and analysis in global tobacco control. To this end, we have tried to…

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Tobacco Atlas Plenary Prezi

ACS Staff Economic and Health Policy Research, American Cancer Society

The Tobacco Atlas Fifth Edition debuted on March 18th, 2015 at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health in Abu Dhabi. During a lunchtime plenary session on the main…

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Tobacco Atlas Finds Industry Tactics Creating a Future of Missed Opportunity to Improve Global Health, Wealth, and Equality

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*Tobacco use in all forms is even more harmful than previously thought, driving increased health problems, premature death, poverty, social injustice, and environmental degradation* *Governments must be bolder and more…

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Changes blog: March 15, 2015

WLF staff

The Atlas is an effort that straddles more than one channel: print and online. As such, the printed Atlas version represents a fixed moment in time with data and content…

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

WLF staff

The authors of The Tobacco Atlas, Fifth Edition, would like to extend thanks and acknowledgement to the contributions of a wide arrange of people who made the Atlas possible. Four individuals…