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Advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking: First edition: Health effects, research needs and recommended actions by regulators

Advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking: Second edition: Health effects, research needs and recommended actions for regulators

Analysis of the economics of tobacco in Morocco [pdf 1.40Mb]

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Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Break free: Choose to breathe not to smoke

Building blocks for tobacco control: A handbook

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CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Global Youth Tobacco Surveillance 2000–2007 [pdf 302kb]

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008

Changes in tobacco use among 13–15 year olds between 1999 and 2007: findings from the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 269kb]

Changes in tobacco use among 13–15 year olds between 1999 and 2008: Findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey

Cigarette package health warnings and interest in quitting smoking, 14 countries: 2008–2010 [pdf 1.87Mb]

Country fact sheets on Clearing the air: Measuring second-hand smoke [pdf 1.42Mb]

Coveting Iran: The infiltration and exploitation of Iran by global cigarette companies [pdf 321kb]

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Developing and improving national toll-free tobacco quit-line services [pdf 2.02Mb]

Differences in worldwide tobacco use by gender: Findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey [pdf 740kb]

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Earmarked tobacco taxes: lessons learnt from nine countries

Economic, social and health issues in tobacco control: Evaluating the impact of tobacco control policies on employment in Egypt

Egypt Global Adult Tobacco Survey: Key findings

EMHJ special issue on tobacco use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Evolution of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) 1998–2008

Exposure to second-hand smoke in selected public places in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region[pdf 782kb]

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Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: Best practices around the world

Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: Facts and figures on the illicit tobacco trade

Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: Immediate action in 10 steps

Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: Taxation and illicit trade

Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

Factsheet on illicit tobacco trade: The tobacco industry's role

Factsheets on Global Adult Tobacco Survey

Factsheets on Global Health Professions Student Survey

Factsheets on Global School Personnel Survey

Factsheets on Global Youth Tobacco Survey

Factsheets on Health Professionals Survey in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 20.6Mb]

Factsheet on Indicators of tobacco industry interference

 

 

Factsheets on Second-hand smoke. Break free: Choose to breathe not to smoke [pdf 29.6Mb]

Factsheet on Selling addiction: tobacco industry transition to new products

 

 

Factsheet on Tobacco industry: decades of deception and duplicity

 

 

 

Factsheet on Tobacco industry tactics

Factsheet on Tobacco industry tactics: advertising, promotion and sponsorship

 

 

Factsheet on Tobacco industry tactics: packaging and labelling

 

 

Factsheet on Tobacco industry tactics: smoke-free environments

 

 

Factsheet on Tobacco industry tactics: tax policies

 

 

 

 

Factsheets on Tobacco = Cancer: Why take the risk? [pdf 302kb]

Factsheets on Women and tobacco use [pdf 2.89Mb]

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Get ready for plain packaging

Girls and boys for change: Tobacco control now

Girls and tobacco use

Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS): Qatar fact sheet 2013 [pdf 2.41Mb]

Global Adult Tobacco Survey: Egypt country report 2009 [pdf 2.61Mb]

Global MPOWER brochures, WHO headquarters

Global Tobacco Surveillance System: The GTSS atlas

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Health professionals against tobacco

How and why to quit smoking [pdf 582kb]

How can the cardiovascular community improve tobacco control?

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Implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Why and how? [pdf 12.6Mb]

Increasing tobacco taxation revenue in Egypt [pdf 753kb]

Integration of tobacco cessation efforts into primary health care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region[pdf 519kb]

Islamic ruling on smoking [pdf 7.31Mb]

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Keep closed environments smoke-free

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Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): The case for Lebanon

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Patterns of tobacco use: Results from the 2005 Global Youth Tobacco Survey in Lebanon [pdf 556.02kb]

Policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence

Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years in Health Ministers’ Council/Gulf Cooperation Council Member States 2001–2004

Progress in tobacco control in Egypt and Pakistan [pdf 1.98Mb]

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Raise taxes on tobacco [593Kb]

Raise taxes on tobacco: World No Tobacco Day 2014 campaign

Regional framework for action on tobacco control

Regional MPOWER brochures: Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS)

Regional MPOWER brochures: Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies

Regional MPOWER brochures: Offer help to quit tobacco use

Regional MPOWER brochures: Overview of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and MPOWER

Regional MPOWER brochures: Protect people from tobacco smoke

Regional MPOWER brochures: Raise taxes on tobacco

Regional MPOWER brochures: Warn about the dangers of tobacco

Regional strategy and action plan for tobacco control 2019–2023

Reproductive health and tobacco use

Review of tobacco industry activities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: An introduction [pdf 1.85Mb]

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Show the truth: Picture warnings save lives: World No Tobacco Day 2009 campaign

Smoke-free movies: From evidence to action (Second edition)

Smoke-free movies: From evidence to action (Third edition)

Smoking and cardiovascular disease in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Smoking and cardiovascular health

Status of the illicit tobacco trade in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2010) [pdf 753kb]

Stay on the road: Implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Stop illicit trade of tobacco products

Stop tobacco industry interference

Summary report on the Expert workshop to prepare a new edition of the WHO advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking [pdf 141kb]

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The cigarette "transit" road to the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq: Illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East(2008) [pdf 3.50Mb]

The economics of tobacco in Egypt: A new analysis of demand [pdf 627kb]

The effect of men’s tobacco use on women

The status of the illicit tobacco trade in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2015)

The tobacco health toll [pdf 375kb]

The tobacco industry catches you young: Break the tobacco marketing net

The tobacco industry documents: What they are, what they tell us, and how to search them: A practical manual [pdf 148kb]

The tobacco industry's tactics and plans to undermine control efforts in Egypt and North Africa (2008) [pdf 2.17Mb]

Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship [pdf 300kb]

Tobacco and poverty: A vicious circle [pdf 1.49Mb]

Tobacco and poverty: Behind the scenes: The inherent contradiction behind big tobacco's corporate social responsibility [pdf 881kb]

Tobacco and poverty: The economics of tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 1.15Mb]

Tobacco and poverty: Tobacco increases the poverty of countries [pdf 720kb]

Tobacco and poverty: Tobacco increases the poverty of individuals and families [pdf 965kb]

Tobacco and poverty: Tobacco industry documents: How to find them on the internet [pdf 582kb]

Tobacco control legislation: An introductory guide

Tobacco control strategy planning companion guide: Building public awareness about passive smoking hazards [pdf 219kb]

Tobacco control strategy planning companion guide: Engaging doctors in tobacco control [pdf 230kb]

Tobacco control strategy planning guide: Strategy planning for tobacco control advocacy [pdf 335kb]

Tobacco control strategy planning guide: Strategy planning for tobacco control movement building [pdf 359kb]

Tobacco free-sports: Towards a tobacco-free generation

Tobacco industry activities in Pakistan: 1992–2002 [pdf 389kb]

Tobacco industry tactics and plans to undermine tobacco control efforts (2012) [pdf 344kb]

Tobacco kills: It shouldn’t be advertised, glamorized or subsidized [pdf 4.86Mb]

Tobacco kills: It shouldn't be advertised, glamorized or subsidized: World No Tobacco Day 2003 campaign

Tobacco marketing to women

Tobacco package labelling and health warning systems [pdf 975kb]

Tobacco products of today [pdf 10.1Mb]

Tobacco taxation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [pdf 668kb]

Tobacco use among Palestine refugee students aged 13–15 UNRWA

Tobacco use and cessation counselling among health professional students: Lebanon Global Health Professions Student Survey, 2005 [pdf 85.3kb]

Tobacco use and cessation counselling: cross-country. Data from the Global Health Professions Student Survey 2005–2007

Tobacco use in shisha: Studies on waterpipe smoking in Egypt [pdf 44.9Mb]

Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise: World No Tobacco Day 2006 campaign

Tobacco: Deadly in any form or disguise [pdf 1.25Mb]

Tobacco-free cities for smoke-free air: A case study in Mecca and Medina [pdf 541kb]

Tobacco-free Mecca and Medina [pdf 1.69Mb]

Tobacco-free sports: Towards a tobacco-free generation [pdf 27.4Mb]

Towards health with justice: Litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control [pdf 604kb]

Trends in tobacco use among school students in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Global Youth Tobacco Survey 1999–2007 [pdf 6.92Mb]

Trust us: We're the tobacco industry [pdf 911kb]

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Voice of truth (2008) [pdf 5.45Mb]

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WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (full text)

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Guidelines for implementation

WHO headquarters Tobacco Free Initiative publications

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008: The MPOWER package

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009: Implementing smoke-free environments

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011: Warning about the dangers of tobacco

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2013: Enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2015: Raising taxes on tobacco

WHO tobacco knowledge summaries: tobacco and postsurgical outcomes

WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: A response to the global epidemic

Women and second-hand smoke

Women and tobacco use

Women, waterpipes and smokeless tobacco