© World Health Organization 2004

“Tobacco and poverty” is a package developed for the World No Tobacco Day 2004 campaign. “The economics of tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region” assesses the tobacco situation at global and regional level. It discusses the: current and future burden of disease and death; addictive nature of tobacco products; prevalence of tobacco use among young people; implementation of taxation, restrictions, bans and health warnings; importance of adopting multi-pronged approaches to tobacco control; and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.