Tobacco Control: A Global Review with Specific Reference to the Role of the GP
Keywords:
Smoking, Passive, Health Education, Physicians, Family,
Abstract
The World Bank in its World Development Report, 1993, provided economic reasons for its new policy that forbids loans for tobacco cultivation, distribution and marketing. In a major review of the overall economic impact of tobacco, the author of the report, Mr Howard Barnum, a Senior Health Economist at the World Bank, concluded that "the nett effect on global welfare of investing in tobacco is emphatically negative". This statement by a hardnosed investment body represents in some ways the culmination of health and economic evidence that has been accumulating since after the Second World War. Only major trends will be briefly commented upon here.
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