文章基本信息
- 标题：Moving away from the comfort zone of tobacco control policies to the highest level of implementation
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- 作者：Fatimah El-Awa ; Prasad Vinayak ; Douglas Bettcher 等
- 期刊名称：Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
- 印刷版ISSN：1020-3397
- 出版年度：2016
- 卷号：22
- 期号：3
- 出版社：World Health Organization
- 摘要：
The year 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Following this, in the same year, the 18th comprehensive national tobacco control law(s) was adopted in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) (1).
Member countries of the EMR have come a long way in tobacco control legislation since the entry into force of the WHO FCTC, with 19 of the 22 countries now party to it (except Morocco, Palestine and Somalia). But has this legal movement really succeeded in changing the prevalence of tobacco use in the Region?
