Open AccessCommentary: Smokeless tobacco: seeing the whole picture
Author(s) -
Martin McKee,
Anna Gilmore
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym101
Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , medicine , environmental health , tobacco use , population
The tobacco industry, with chameleon like qualities, hascontinuously and successfully adapted to the changing policyenvironment. Witness, for example, how it has maintaineda growth in profits in much of the developed world despitefalling sales. With greater understanding of the hazards ofsecond-hand smoke identified as long ago as the 1970s as ‘themost dangerous development yet to the viability of the tobaccoindustry,
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