Fact Sheets for the media

     World No Tobacco Day, 2009

Useful Publications

1. Report on Tobacco Control in India
     Press release from WHO-India with link to the document chapterwise:
     http://www.whoindia.org/SCN/Tobacco/News/112304-Press%20release%20TCI.htm

     a. Chapterwise:  
     http://www.whoindia.org/SCN/Tobacco/Report/TCI-Report.htm

2. Bidi Smoking and Public Health
     http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/bidi/en/index.aspl
     Website of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Tobacco Free Initiative

3. Tobacco-Related Oral Mucosal Lesions and Conditions in India
     http://www.eis.ernet.in/dental/dental.htm

International

1. World Health Organization - MPOWER Report, 2008:
     http://searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Tobacco_Free_Initiative_mpower_report_full_2008.pdf

2. World Bank - Economics of tobacco control - books and other resources, 2001:
     http://www1.worldbank.org/ tobacco/

3. US Surgeon General - Reports on tobacco, 1964-2006:
     http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/index.htm

4. US Surgeon General - Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, 2008:
     http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

5. IARC Monograph on smoking and second hand smoke (Vol 83), 2004.
     http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol83/index.php 

6. IARC Monograph on smokeless tobacco (Vol 89), 2007.
     http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol89/index.php

7. IARC Monograph on betel quid (Vol 85), 2004.
     http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol85/index.php

Newsletter

     Dec 2008

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