Global Tobacco Control: A Prevention “Best Buy”
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This session of Grand Rounds explored the control of tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide. Currently, approximately 6 million people die each year due to tobacco-related illnesses, a figure expected to increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030. If current global trends continue, tobacco use will cause up to 1 billion deaths in the 21st century.
CDC is the lead US federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control, and CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health develops, conducts, and supports strategic efforts to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of tobacco use. An efficient and systematic surveillance mechanism to monitor the epidemic is one of the essential components of a comprehensive tobacco control program.
Global tobacco control has been called a “best buy” in public health. Beyond monitoring of tobacco use and exposure, this session will discuss effective prevention strategies at the personal, population, and policy levels.
Dr. John Iskander and Dr. Indu Ahluwalia discuss the progress and challenges of tobacco control efforts across the world. Tobacco use is a major preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide. Currently, approximately 5.4 million people die each year due to tobacco-related illnesses—a figure expected to increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030. An efficient and systematic surveillance mechanism to monitor the epidemic is one of the essential components of a comprehensive tobacco control program.
- Joanna Cohen, PhD
- Director, Institute for Global Tobacco Control
Professor of Disease Prevention
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Samira Asma, DDS, MPH
- Chief, Global Tobacco Control Branch
Office on Smoking and Health, CDC
- Michael Eriksen, ScD
- Dean, Institute of Public Health
Georgia State University
- Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD
- Scientific Director
- John Iskander, MD, MPH
- Deputy Scientific Director
- Susan Laird, MSN, RN
- Communications Director
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Hear about the legislative successes in tobacco control efforts, including the FDA’s ability to regulate the content, marketing and sales of tobacco products. Learn about the challenges that lie ahead in saving millions of lives through the reduction of tobacco use.
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