- Tobacco Death Toll
1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn001.html
- Tobacco Epidemic: Health Dimensions
WHO factsheet. "Half a billion people now alive will be killed by tobacco products" and other descriptions of the size of the problem.
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact154.html
- Tobacco Law Compendium
Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.
http://www.tobaccolaw.org/
- Tobacco, Health and the Law
Syllabus, reading lists, and online reading materials for a course given at The University of Dayton Law School. Covers history; populations and demographics; proposed laws, regulation, and litation; tobacco and the third world countries.
http://www.udayton.edu/~health/syllabi/tobacco/index.htm
- Tobacco: A Legal and Policy Issue of the Elderly
Policy paper examines impact of tobacco on older people: addiction, secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and health care coverage, smokefree environments for children and grandchildren.
http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/clearinghouse.htm
- Toward a Tobacco Free California
Two extensive policy reports: A Model for Change: The California Experience in Tobacco Control (31 pages, pdf), and Toward A Tobacco Free California: Strategies for the 21st Century 2000-2003 (54 pages, pdf). Both outline tobacco control programs which are effective, and provide a basis for estimating the rate at which effective programs can reduce tobacco use.
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/
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