Edited by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer. 394 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2004. $55. ISBN 0-674-01334-4.
On February 27, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Controlcame into force, 90 days after ratification by the 40th signatoryto this first health treaty negotiated under the auspices ofthe World Health Organization. The treaty codifies policy approachesto tobacco control, mostly as translated from lessons learnedin developed countries such as the United States, Canada, andthe United Kingdom, where the prevalence of smoking among mendeclined by more than 50 percent between the mid-1960s and 2001.In this collection of eight national analyses and a perspectiveon the European Union, a timely story is told from different. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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