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Ron Davis


Ronald Davis, aged 52, passed away November 6, 2008 after a courageous 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer.


Ron graduated from medical school at the University of Chicago, where he also received a Master of Arts in Public Policy Studies. He trained at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and served as the first Director of the Office on Smoking and Health when CDC assumed responsibility for OSH in 1987. He later served as Chief Medical Officer for the Michigan Department of Public Health, Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, Editor of Tobacco Control, and was chair of the treatobacco.net editorial board.

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WHO MPOWER Report


WHO have published their 2008 Global Tobacco Control Report, on the status of tobacco control in 173 countries.


This report highlights the underdeveloped state of cessation support and treatment in the world, with only 5% of the world's population having access to a high level of service provision. You can download the report from the WHO's website through the link below.
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2008 Spanish treatment consensus


New national report now published.
This collaboration between the national committee for the prevention of tabaquismo (CNPT) and the Ministry of Health was launched in late 2008.
english abstract
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2008 US Clinical Practice Guideline


The new US Guideline is launched on Wednesday 7 May 2008


The new 2008 US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline Treating tobacco use and dependence is launched in May 2008. Details of the new Guideline can be obtained from the US Surgeon General's office and it will be possible to access the Guideline after its launch.
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WCTOH declares FCTC Parties should adopt Article 14 guidelines by 2012 (see link below)
Smoker survey
If you have a smoking cessation website and are willing to post a smoker survey link please contact Jean-Francois Etter.
UK National Smoking Cessation Conference
22-23 June 2009, London
Abstracts of presentations now online
WCTOH declarations
Read the Mumbai declarations on treatment
FCTC
The text of the FCTC in 9 languages
FCA Monitor, 2007 report
See chapter 6 (treatment) of the FCA report on FCTC implementaion
FCTC Party reports to Secretariat
The two year Party reports
Secretariat's report
See Article 14 report
COP3 Committee A report
22 November 2008, establishes Article 14 working group
WHO Policy Recommendations for Treatment
WHO's 2003 report
An algorithm to choose treatment
Recent paper from Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Interview with Charles Fletcher 1992
An extraordinary pioneer who iniated the first Royal College of Physicians report

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