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New Lancet Study: Tobacco Control Measures Are Effective and Affordable Strategies to Reduce Chronic Disease Deaths Globally
Date:12/6/2007

ntake are highly cost-effective. The cost of implementing these interventions would be less than 40 cents (US) per person per year in low- and middle-income countries and between 50 cents and $1 (US) per person per year in upper middle-income countries. Across the 23 countries, the mean implementation cost per person was 36 cents per person, which on average was equivalent to 0.5 percent of government spending on health, according to the study. (In fact, with the exception of public awareness campaigns, these measures will cost governments virtually nothing to implement and, with the case of tobacco taxes, will actually raise revenue.)

If anything, the study understates the number of lives that would be saved and the financial benefits to governments and taxpayers from implementing effective tobacco control measures. The study examines the lives that would be saved from current smokers quitting, but not lives saved by preventing children from starting to smoke or from reducing smoking intensity among current smokers. Even more lives would be saved if countries implemented other measures called for by the tobacco control treaty, such as the regulation of the contents of tobacco products. The study also does not appear to have examined the financial benefits of implementing tobacco control measures, including the revenue raised by increasing tobacco taxes and the savings from reducing tobacco-related health care costs. These financial gains far exceed the minimal costs involved in implementing the tobacco control measures studied.

The Lancet study is an important reminder that science and experience have identified effective and affordable measures to reduce tobacco use around the world. What's needed is the political leadership to implement these measures. To date, 151 nations have expressed their commitment to do so by ratifying the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

There is an urgent need for action. Unless current trends are rever
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