Tobacco increases the poverty of countries
© World Health Organization 2004
“Tobacco and poverty” is a package developed for the World No Tobacco Day 2004 campaign. “Tobacco increases the poverty of countries” illustrates how tobacco not only impoverishes those who use it, it puts an enormous financial burden on countries. The costs of tobacco use at the national level encompass increased health care costs, lost productivity due to illness and early death, foreign exchange losses and environmental damage.
It also shows the tobacco industry’s desperate attempts to stave off sensible regulation through overstating the employment and trade benefits of tobacco to developing countries and raising the spectre of massive job losses in order to deter governments from moving to protect public health.
The economics of tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
© World Health Organization 2004
“Tobacco and poverty” is a package developed for the World No Tobacco Day 2004 campaign. “The economics of tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region” assesses the tobacco situation at global and regional level. It discusses the: current and future burden of disease and death; addictive nature of tobacco products; prevalence of tobacco use among young people; implementation of taxation, restrictions, bans and health warnings; importance of adopting multi-pronged approaches to tobacco control; and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Trends in tobacco use among school students in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Global Youth Tobacco Survey 1999–2007
© World Health Organization 2007
This publication highlights the trends in five important variables of tobacco usage and exposure among school students (13–15 years) across the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The variable are: current users of cigarettes; current users of other tobacco products besides cigarettes; never smokers who are susceptible to start smoking; and exposure to second-hand smoke at home and in public places.
This information has been generated from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey; a school-based survey designed to enhance the capacity of countries to monitor tobacco use among youth and to guide the implementation and evaluation of tobacco prevention and control programmes.
