© World Health Organization 2002

This publication highlights the global campaign launched by WHO and its partners to clean sports of all forms of tobacco consumption, exposure to secondhand smoke, and tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. WHO urges people everywhere to take back their right to health and healthy living, and to protect future generations from the preventable death and disease caused by tobacco.  

© World Health Organization 2003

This publication focuses on the role of films and entertainment in fostering a worldwide epidemic and urges them to stop being used as vehicles of death and disease. The world of films and entertainment cannot be accused of causing cancer, but they do not have to promote a product that does.

© World Health Organization 2007

This publication highlights the trends in five important variables of tobacco usage and exposure among school students (13–15 years) across the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The variable are: current users of cigarettes; current users of other tobacco products besides cigarettes; never smokers who are susceptible to start smoking; and exposure to second-hand smoke at home and in public places.

This information has been generated from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey; a school-based survey designed to enhance the capacity of countries to monitor tobacco use among youth and to guide the implementation and evaluation of tobacco prevention and control programmes.  

© 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.