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Publications on tobacco control - complete list by year

2012

• Cardiovascular harms from tobacco use and secondhand smoke
  Report of a joint collaboration between the World Heart Federation, the ITC Project at the University of Waterloo Canada and the World Health Organization
  
  
• Confronting the tobacco epidemic in a new era of trade and investment liberalization
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in Kenya
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in the Philippines
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in Uganda
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in Viet Nam
  
  
• Standard operating procedure for intense smoking of cigarettes
  WHO Tobacco Laboratory Network (TobLabNet) official method
  Standard operating procedure 01
  
  
• Technical resource for country implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3
  
  
• WHO global report: mortality attributable to tobacco
  
  
• WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
  Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation
  WHO Technical Report Series, no. 967
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2012 brochure
  Theme: Tobacco industry interference
  
  

2011

• Assessment of the economic costs of smoking
  WHO economics of tobacco toolkit
  
  
• Developing and improving national toll-free tobacco quit line services
  A World Health Organizaton manual
  
  
• Gender, women, and the tobacco epidemic
  A World Health Organization monograph
  
  
• Gender, health, tobacco and equity
  pdf, 271kb
  Flyer
  
  
• Global estimate of the burden of disease from second-hand smoke
  Joint publication between the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) and the WHO Public Health and Environmental Department (PHE)
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in Thailand
  
  
• Joint national capacity assessment on the implementation of effective tobacco control policies in Turkey
  
  
• Making cities smoke-free
  Joint publication between the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) and the WHO Centre for Health Development (Kobe Centre)
  
  
• MPOWER brochures
  These brochures are endorsed by WHO and all its Partners in the Bloomberg initiative to reduce tobacco use
  
  
• Protect people from tobacco smoke: smoke-free environments
  Building capacity for tobacco control: training package
  Joint publication between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union)
  
  
• Smoke-free movies: from evidence to action - second edition
  
  
• Systematic review of the link between tobacco and poverty
  
  
• Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship: enforcing comprehensive bans
  Building capacity for tobacco control: training package
  Joint publication between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union)
  
  
• Tobacco questions for surveys - A subset of key questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey - 2nd edition
  This guide was prepared by partners of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) - the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization
  
  
• Warn about the dangers of tobacco: packaging and labelling of tobacco products
  Building capacity for tobacco control: training package
  Joint publication between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union)
  
  
• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011: warning about the dangers of tobacco
  
  
• WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2011 flyer
  Theme: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  
  

2010

• Economic analysis of demand using data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)
  WHO economics of tobacco toolkit
  
  
• WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
  Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation
  WHO Technical Report Series, no. 955
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2010 flyer
  Theme: Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women
  
  

2009

• Fact sheet on tuberculosis and tobacco
  
  
• Smoke-free movies: from evidence to action - first edition
  
  
• Tobacco industry interference with tobacco control
  
  
• WHO operational planning meeting for gender and tobacco projects
  pdf, 447kb
  Meeting report, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan, 21-23 July 2009
  
  
• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2009: implementing smoke-free environments
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2009 brochure
  Theme: Tobacco health warnings
  
  

2008

• A WHO/The Union monograph on TB and tobacco control
  
  
• Evolution of the tobacco industry positions on addiction to nicotine
  
  
• Report on bidi smoking and public health
  
  
• Tobacco and poverty in the Philippines
  
  
• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2008 - the MPOWER package
  
  
• WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
  Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation
  WHO technical report series, no. 951
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2008 brochure
  Theme: Tobacco-free youth
  
  

2007

• Gender and tobacco control: a policy brief
  
  
• Gender and tobacco control: sifting the evidence
  
  
• Policy recommendations on protection from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke
  
  
• WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
  Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation
  WHO technical report series 945
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2007 brochure
  pdf, 1.60Mb
  Theme: Smoke-free inside
  
  

2006

• Economics of tobacco control in the countries of MERCOSUR and associate countries
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2006 brochure
  pdf, 2.70Mb
  Theme: Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise
  
  

2005

• Advisory note waterpipe tobacco smoking: health effects, research needs and recommended actions by regulators
  
  
• Best practices in tobacco control: regulation of tobacco products Canada report
  
  
• Impact of tobacco-related illnesses in Bangladesh
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2005 booklet
  pdf, 5.29Mb
  Theme: Health professionals against tobacco
  
  

2004

• Building blocks for tobacco control: a handbook
  
  
• Guiding principles for the development of tobacco product research and testing capacity and proposed protocols for the initiation of tobacco product testing
  
  
• The development of Philip Morris's position on environmental tobacco smoke for its website
  pdf, 202kb
• The millennium development goals and tobacco control
  
  
• The tobacco industry documents. What they are, what they tell us and how to search them
  pdf, 1.69Mb
  A practical manual (2nd edition)
  
  
• The WHO European strategy for smoking cessation policy
  
  
• Tobacco control legislation: an introductory guide - second edition
  
  
• Tobacco industry and corporate responsibility ... an inherent contradiction
  
  pdf, 620kb
• World No Tobacco Day 2004 brochure
  pdf, 803kb
  Theme: Tobacco and poverty: a vicious circle
  
  

2003

• Policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence
  
  
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  Text of the Convention
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2003 brochure
  pdf, 335kb
  Theme: Tobacco free film, tobacco free fashion
  
  

2002

• Effective access to tobacco dependence treatment – success stories
  
  
• Conclusions and recommendations on health claims derived from ISO/FTC method to measuring cigarette yield
  
  
• Recommendation on smokeless tobacco products
  
  
• Recommendation on tobacco product ingredients and emissions
  
  
• SACTob recommendation on nicotine and the regulation in tobacco and non-tobacco products
  
  
• Statement of principles guiding the evaluation of new, or modified tobacco products
  
  
• The Smoker's Body
  Poster
  
  
• The tobacco atlas (first edition, 2002)
  
  
• World No Tobacco Day 2002 brochure
  pdf, 609kb
  Theme: Tobacco free sports
  
  

2001

• Economics, social and health issues in tobacco control
  
  
• Confronting the tobacco epidemic in an era of trade liberalization
  
  
• Tobacco and the rights of the child
  
  

2000

• Advancing knowledge on regulating tobacco products
  pdf, 913kb
  A World Health Organization monograph
  
  
• Tobacco industry strategies to undermine tobacco control activities at the World Health Organization
  
  

1999

• Confronting the epidemic: a global agenda for tobacco control research
  
  
• Curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control
  The World Bank report
  
  
• International consultation on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and child health
  pdf, 105kb
  Consultation report
  
  
• International consultation on tobacco and youth: what in the world works?
  Consultation report
  
  
• Mayo report on addressing the worldwide tobacco epidemic through effective, evidence-based treatment