It's time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
- Written by Kathryn Barnsley, Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
Current smoking cessation rates are not sufficient to meet public health goals. soelin/flickr , CC BY-NC-SANew comprehensive research shows smoking imposes a heavy economic burden throughout the world, gobbling up almost 6% of global health spend and nearly 2% of the world’s GDP. In 2012 this amounted to US$1,436 billion (A$1.9 billion).
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