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Full text of Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control, World Bank, 1999. Analyses economic, social and health issues around tobacco controls. Translations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and Japanese.
Why the report was written, its topics, audience, authors and data sources.
Translation of the World Bank Report on Tobacco Control
Economics of Tobacco Database - Key country-specific data on tobacco use, deaths caused by tobacco use, expenditures on health, tobacco tax structures, levels and revenues regulations and restrictions on tobacco, tobacco leaf and cigarette production, employment related to tobacco, trade: imports and exports (volume and value) of tobacco leaves and cigarettes
Summary information for 197 countries and territories, and briefing notes for selected countries
Tobacco Slide Presentations
12 myths and facts on: tobacco and the poor, what smokers know about the risks of tobacco, tobacco taxes, rates and revenues, smuggling,  impact of tobacco controls on farmers.  Questions and answers on strategies governments could use to reduce tobacco use and their cost-effectiveness.
Other websites on tobacco
About this Site - Explore this site if you are interested in: bans on advertising and promotion, country-specific information about tobacco, death and disease from tobacco, cost-effectiveness of interventions to control tobacco, costs and benefits of tobacco control, nicotine addiction, nicotine replacement therapy, smuggling, tobacco and the poor, tobacco taxes, tobacco use, tobacco use and control in developing countries
Economics of tobacco control toolkit
Tobacco Control in Developing Countries
Economics of Tobacco Discussion Papers
Tobacco Control Policy: Strategies, Successes and Setbacks
 

Links to other tobacco-related websites by topics


The following Internet links are relevant to the economics of tobacco control and thus provided for our user’s reference. However, this list does not indicate endorsement of these sites or their contents by the World Bank.

S T A T I S T I C S  /  R E P O R T S :

WHO Tobacco Atlas, 2002

Detailed country comparative data and maps

PAHO Template and Guidelines for Developing Legislation for Tobacco Control, May 2002 in English and Spanish

Clear, practical, concrete help for drafting tobacco control legislation, based on global best practice.

WHO Tobacco or Health: A Global Status Report 1997

Country profiles in tobacco use, production, trade, industry, health effects and tobacco-control legislation.

FAO Agriculture data

Data on tobacco acreage, yied, production, comodity balance, producer prices by country.

USDA Economic Research Service: Tobacco Briefing Room

US Tobacco Leaf and Products Statistics and Analysis. Data on tobacco production, stocks, imports, exports, consumption and prices are also available for selected countries.

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: Tobacco Statistics and Report

Statistical information and analysis on the world un-manufactured tobacco situation.

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: Tobacco World Market and Trade

Latest analysis and data on tobacco, outlining the current supply, demand and trade estimates both for the United States and for many major countries.

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: Attache Reports

Attache reports on tobacco from different countries.

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Tobacco Program

CDC’s STATE System

Current and historical state-based data on the prevalence of tobacco use, tobacco control laws, the health impact and costs associated with tobacco use, and tobacco agriculture and manufacturing in the US.

CDC’s TIPS: Research, Data and Report

Tobacco data and reports in the US, some are economics related.

 


E C O N O M I C   R E S E A R C H

National Bureau of Economic Research: Research papers in Health

In this series, there are 25 research papers examining the effects on tobacco consumption of taxation and various tobacco control policies.

 

Homepage of Frank Chaloupka, Ph.D.

Various journal articles and presentations on the economic analysis of tobacco use and the role of prices and other control policies in affecting the demands for tobacco authored or co-authored Frank Chaloupka, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

T O B A C C O   C O N T R O L   W E B S I T E S

International

WHO Tobacco Free Initiative

International Union Against Cancer

Research for international tobacco control

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

National and Advocacy:

CDC’s Tobacco Information and Prevention Sourcepage (TIPS)

Smoking kills: a white paper on tobacco by the British government

UK Action on Smoking and Health

Action on Smoking and Health Thailand

The Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health

Tobacco BBS

Tobacco control

TreaTobacco.net

 

T O B A C C O   I N D U S T R Y   W E B S I T E S

Brown and Williamson

Philip Morris

RJ Reynolds

Tobacco leaf
The Web Site of the International Tobacco Growers' Association

The Tobacco Reporter

Tobacco Asia

A comprehensive list of links to industry websites

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