A little bit is not good enough: comprehensive smoking control is needed

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Research on policy making and practise of smoking control of the last decades made it clear that there is no magic solution to the “smoking epidemic”. Each year 5 million people are dying from tobacco use and the numbers are still increasing. Some 50% of all lung diseases worldwide are linked to tobacco use, and the vast majority of projected death caused by tobacco in the next quarter century will be among people who are currently smoking (World Health Organisation 2008). Peto and Lopez predicted that halving the global cigarette consumption per adult by the year 2020 would prevent about one-third of the tobacco death in the second quarter of the century (Peto et al. 1992). …