MPOWER 2009 again highlights the underdeveloped state of cessation support around the world. Download the full report from the WHO site through the link below.
Michael Russell
Michael Russell, aged 77, died 16 July 2009, in Cape Town South Africa.

Obituary by Martin Jarvis,
published in the Guardian.
By the 1960s evidence of the danger of cigarette smoking was clear, but there was little understanding of why people smoked. Michael Russell was one of the pioneers who did most to revolutionize our understanding, whose work eventually brought recognition that cigarette smoking is a classic drug dependence behaviour, underlaid by nicotine addiction. He was based at Griffith Edwards' Addiction Research Unit, at the Institute of Psychiatry, where he built a research team, most of whom remain in the field. Russell was appointed Professor of Addiction in 1986, and continued at the ARU until 1998.
Photo credits: Martin Jarvis
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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.
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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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