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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.
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Development In Practice : Curbing the Epidemic : Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control.

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Translated versions were produced by the following people/agencies:
  • Russian and Arabic, and summaries: WHO
  • Spanish: PAHO 
  • French, Bahas Indonesian: World Bank (with funding from CDC)
  • Hungarian: National Institute for Health Promotion, Budapest
  • Polish: Witold Zatonski and Krzysztof Przewozniak, with Jakub Gierczynski, Sergiusz Matusiak, Pawel Sztwiertnia. Published by Medycyna Praktyczna, Krakow 2002.
  • Slovak: Bratislava 2002; Stop Smoking, NGO
  • German: The German Cancer Research Center

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