Introduction The burden of disease attributable to tobacco use in Latin America is very high.
Our objective was to evaluate the 10-year potential impact of current legislation related to …

Introduction: In Latin America, tobacco smoking prevalence is between 6.4% and 35.2%.
Governments have been making efforts to support the regulation of advertising and, in many …

Objective To investigate the tobacco-attributable burden on disease, medical costs,
productivity losses and informal caregiving; and to estimate the health and economic gains …

Introduction Tobacco consumption is associated with nearly 30 000 deaths annually in
Nigeria alongside other adverse health and economic effects. Our objective was to estimate …

OBJECTIVES: To compare tobacco control policies independently and as a package
through a simulation model to project smoking prevalence and associated future premature …

Background Argentina's congress passed a tobacco control law that would enforce 100%
smoke-free environments for the entire country, strong and pictorial health warnings on …

Introduction Disease burden due to tobacco smoking in Latin America remains very high.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential impact of implementing smoke-free …

In Latin America, about 80% of the population is protected by at least one of the six
MPOWER measures 1 promoted by the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control …

Tobacco packaging and labeling policies have emerged as prominent and cost-effective
tobacco control measures. Although packaging policies have primarily focused on health …

Background Worldwide, smoking tobacco causes 7 million deaths annually, and this toll is
expected to increase, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. In Latin …