This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (2)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Report From the 52nd World Health Assembly

David Satcher, MD, PhD
Surgeon General of the United States

JAMA. 1999;282:424.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

The global movement to control tobacco passed a significant milestone on May 21 with a resolution by the 52nd World Health Assembly to begin work toward a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This action, taken by the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO), initiated a process that may lead to an international treaty for global cooperation to reduce the health consequences of tobacco use.

The cover of the World Bank report features this photo of a young smoker in Mexico. (Photo credit: Joe Losos, MD/Health Canada)

Smoking already kills one in 10 adults worldwide, and this burden will increase dramatically in the next 20 years unless there is effective unified action. Until recently, the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases caused by tobacco mainly affected developed countries; it is now rapidly shifting to the developing world. About 1.1 billion people smoke and by 2020, seven of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?