What can obesity control learn from tobacco control’s success?
- Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
Tobacco control is revered in contemporary public health as the poster child for chronic disease control. In nations like Australia, which have taken tobacco control seriously, we have seen virtually continual falls in smoking since the mid 1970s (figure 1) as well as in the incidence of related diseases such as lung cancer (figure 2).
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