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References to Tobacco and Smoking

World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC, WHO 2003, updated 2005) see specific WHO FCTC own page below MeSH terms 'Tobacco products', 'tobacco' and 'nicotine' (Medical Subject Headings – MeSH-PubMed controlled vocabulary thesaurus; accessed 28/06/2020)

WHO lexicon of alcohol and drug terms World Health Organization (1994)

Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC (to be reviewed in 2021); see specific Directive own page below

MeSH term ‘Smoking’ (Medical Subject Headings – MeSH-PubMed controlled vocabullary thesaurus; accessed 30/11/2020)

Special Eurobarometer 458: Attitudes of Europeans towards tobacco and electronic cigarettes (2017)

European Commission/International Agency for Research on Cancer. European Code against Cancer (2015). Scientific justification – Tobacco (accessed 17/06/2020)

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Volume 100E. Personal habits and indoor combustions (2012)

European Respiratory Society (2013). European Lung White book. 2nd Edition. Respiratory health and disease in Europe. Gibson et al.

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Volume 38. Tobacco Smoking (1986)

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Volume 83. Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking (2004)

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Volume 37. Tobacco habits other tan smoking; betel-quid and areca-nut chewing; and some related nitrosamines (1985)

IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Volume 89. Smokeless tobacco and some tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (2007)

European Commission. European Cancer Information System. Estimated mortality by country - Lung (accesed 27/10/2020)

Thun MJ. When truth is unwelcome: the first reports on smoking and lung cancer. Bulletin of the World Health Oorganization (2005)

Royal College of Physicians. Smoking and Health. A Report from the Royal College of Physicians on smoking in relation to cancer of the lung and other diseases (1962).

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Smoking and health. Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (1964)

The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014)

World Health Organization. Tobacco and inequities. Guidance for addressing inequities in tobacco-related harm (2014)

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Smoking cessation: A preport of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2020)

Public Health England. Health matters: smoking and mental health (2020) (Accessed 09/12/2020)

The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2004)

National Insititute on Drug Abuse. Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes Research Report (revised January 2020)

WHO. Tobacco and coronary heart disease: WHO tobacco knowledge summaries (2020)

WHO Europe. Factsheet Tobacco and oral health (2018)

FDI World Dental Federation and World Health Organization (FDI/WHO). Tobacco or oral health: an advocacy guide for oral health professionals (2005)

World Health Organization/ International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. A WHO/The Union Monograph on TB and Tobacco Control (2007)

European Society of Cardiology. Population-level changes to promote cardiovascular health. Position paper in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2012)

2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines (2019)

The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: A report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2006)

Taylor G et al. Change in mental health after smoking cessation: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2014; 348:g1151 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1151 (2014)

WHO Europe. European tobacco use. Trends Report 2019 (2019)

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A study on liability and the health costs of smoking GHK; Commissioned by DG-SANCO (2012)

American Cancer Society. The Tobacco Atlas, 6th Edition (2018)

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WHO FCTC-Adopted guidelines and policy options and recommendations for implementation of the WHO FCTC

World Health Organization (2008). MPOWER: A policy package to reverse the tobacco epidemic. ISBN 978 92 4 159663 3

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European Cancer Leagues. Tobacco Control Scale (2019)

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American College of Preventive Medicine Position Statement. Policies to Restrict Secondhand Smoke Exposure (2013)

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Directive (EU) 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 amending Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) in view of changing market realities.

WHO FCTC Conference of Parties. Guidelines for implementation of Article 11. Guidelines on packaging and labelling of tobacco products (2008)

WHO FCTC Conference of Parties. Guidelines for implementation of Article 13. Guidelines on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (2008)

WHO-FCTC. Tobacco Plain Packaging Global Status Update (2018)

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Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children. WHO collaborative cross-national survey. http://www.hbsc.org/

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DG TAXUD. Excise duty tables. Part III- Manufactured Tobacco (shows the situation as at 01/03/2019) (accessed 30/06/2020)