Implementing tobacco control
Verônica Carvalho
Present and future generations must be urgently protected from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.Governments use the tobacco control measures in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke. By implementing these measures, governments reduce the heavy burden of disease and death that is attributable to tobacco use or exposure.
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Tobacco control measures
16%of the world's population are protected by comprehensive national smoke-free laws
Read the tobacco fact sheetWarning the public
30countries meet the best practice for pictorial warnings
Search the pictorial health warnings databaseSecond-hand smoke
> 600 000people die each year from exposure to second-hand smoke
See the global estimate of the burden of disease from second-hand smoke
