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The Globalization of Tobacco Use:

21 Challenges For The 21st Century

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

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.

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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