Edited by Prabhat Jha and Frank Chaloupka. Published by OUP for the World Bank and World Health Organization, 2000 Posted here by permission of OUP.  Short fact sheets summarizing some key points  Overview (PDF) Tobacco Fast Facts/Myths Dispelled (PDF) Tobacco Facts (PDF) Graphs selected form the book (PDF)

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Tobacco Control in Developing Countries

1. Overview (10 pages)
   (Foreword and brief chapter summaries)

Section I.  Tobacco Use and its consequences

2. Global patterns of smoking and smoking-attributable mortality (40 pages)

3. Poverty and smoking (22 pages) 

4. Estimating the costs of tobacco use (42 pages) 

Section II.  Analytics of tobacco use

5. The economics of addiction (26 pages)

6. A welfare analysis of tobacco use (22 pages)

7. The economic rationale for intervention in the tobacco market (22 pages)

Section III.  Demand for tobacco

8. Consumer information and tobacco use (40 pages)

9. Tobacco advertising and promotion (22 pages)

10. The taxation of tobacco products (36 pages)

11. Clean indoor-air laws and youth access restrictions (14 pages)

12. Smoking cessation and nicotine-replacement therapies (22 pages)

Section IV.  Supply of tobacco

13. The supply-side effects of tobacco-control policies (34 pages)

14. The impact of trade liberalization on tobacco consumption (22 pages)

15. How big is the worldwide cigarette-smuggling problem? (28 pages)

16. Issues in the smuggling of tobacco products (14 pages)

Section V. Policy directions

17. The design, administration, and potential revenue of tobacco excises (20 pages)

18. The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of price increases and other tobacco-control policies (22 pages)

19. Strategic priorities in tobacco control for governments and international agencies (16 pages)

Appendixes