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The Globalization of Tobacco Use:


21 Challenges For The 21st Century


The Globalization of Tobacco Use: This ACS report lists as one of the 21 challenges it identifies to increase access to comprehensive treatment for tobacco dependence. The challenges will be significant: training, financial support for healthcare systems, recognition of the role and value of tobacco dependence treatment. The report highlights the strategies proposed by WHO's MPOWER report and through FCTC Article 14, which calls for Parties to the Convention to adopt national tobacco dependence treatment guidelines.

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WHO MPOWER 2


WHO have published the second MPOWER report, focusing on smokefree environments


WHO MPOWER 2 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.

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Michael Russell


Michael Russell, aged 77, died 16 July 2009, in Cape Town South Africa.


Michael Russell 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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See new Resource library section on quitline resources.
Free Cochrane access
See list of countries and regions that provide free access
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More news on FCTC working groups, including on Article 14
12th SRNT Europe Conference
Early bird registration extended to Wednesday 7th July!
September 6-9, 2010
University of Bath, England, UK.
Quitline resources
A new Resource library section on
quitline resources around the world
American College of Chest Physicians
Tobacco Dependence Treatment Tool Kit
Paraguay smoking cessation guidelines 2010
Spanish version in Resource Library
Uruguay smoking cessation guidelines 2009
See Spanish or English version in Resource Library
Article 14 working group
See the Parties in the working group
Mike Russell, smoking cessation pioneer
Read the interview in "Addiction"
NRT recognized as Essential Medicine
Patch and gum have been placed on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training
promoting excellence in the delivery of smoking cessation interventions
FCTC
The text of the FCTC in 9 languages
FCTC Party reports to Secretariat
The two year Party reports by country and soon the five year Party reports
An algorithm to choose treatment
Recent paper from Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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