OVER the last 10 years, impressive gains have been made in the battle against the tobacco epidemic. Spurred by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which entered into force in 2005, most countries have launched comprehensive tobacco-control programmes. But much more remains to be done. If the tobacco epidemic is left unaddressed, WHO estimates that it will kill one billion people over the course of this century.
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