A brief report on IARC Handbook of Cancer Prevention, Volume 14, on tobacco control, now available

Effectiveness of tax and price policies in tobacco control
Frank J Chaloupka, Kurt Straif, Maria E Leon
Tob Control Published Online First: 29 November 2010 doi:10.1136/tc.2010.039982
About 20 experts on economics, epidemiology, public policy and tobacco control were asked by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to evaluate the strength of the available evidence on the effects of tax and price policies to prevent and reduce tobacco use: the evidence presented and assessed in IARC Handbook volume 14 documents the effectiveness of tax and price policies in the control of tobacco use and improvement of public health. IARC Handbook of Cancer Prevention, Volume 14, should be available by the summer of 2011.
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