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Tobacco control in the wake of the 1998 master settlement agreement.
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This report presents an overview of local, state, and federal tobacco-control policies and reviews recent developments focused on taxation, smoking cessation, bans on smoking in public areas, and international trade policies.Abstract:
This Special Report discusses the implications of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between the states and the tobacco industry. In the context of current state budget crises, a decreasing proportion of the settlement dollars is being spent on programs to reduce smoking. This report presents an overview of local, state, and federal tobacco-control policies and reviews recent developments focused on taxation, smoking cessation, bans on smoking in public areas, and international trade policies.read more
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Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings
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Smoking and Mental Illness: A Population-Based Prevalence Study
Karen E. Lasser,J. Wesley Boyd,Steffie Woolhandler,David U. Himmelstein,Danny McCormick,David H. Bor +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report that persons with mental disorders are twice as likely to smoke as other individuals, but have substantial quit rates compared with persons without mental disorders, and that smoking rates for individuals with mental disorder are higher than those without mental disorder.
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Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000
Majid Ezzati,Alan D. Lopez +1 more
TL;DR: Smoking was an important cause of global mortality in 2000 and health loss due to smoking will grow even larger unless effective interventions and policies that reduce smoking among men and prevent increases among women in developing countries are implemented.