Publications & Presentations
The Tobacco Atlas, 3rd Edition
Tobacco—the only consumer product proven to kill more than half of its regular users—is responsible for about six million deaths worldwide every year. One hundred million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th century. Unless effective measures are implemented to prevent young people from smoking and to help current smokers quit, tobacco will kill one billion people in the 21st century.
The latest edition of the groundbreaking
Tobacco Atlas gives shape and meaning to
statistics about tobacco use and control.
Full-color maps and graphics illustrate in a
clear and accessible format the wide range of
tobacco issues, revealing similarities and
differences between countries.
Visit tobaccoatlas.org for the
interactive version of The Tobacco Atlas or
download
the .pdf (50MB file)
The authors of the latest Atlas include: Hana Ross, Ph.D., an economist and strategic director of international tobacco control research at the American Cancer Society; Judith Mackay, M.D., a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and London, and a special advisor at World Lung Foundation; Omar Shafey, Ph.D., M.P.H., a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist, and an adjunct professor of Global Health at Emory University; and Michael Eriksen, Sc.D., a professor and founding director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University.
Gruber Report
“A Modern Economic View of Tobacco Taxation” broke new ground by establishing a theoretical framework for viewing tobacco taxation as benefitting the poor. Gruber demonstrates that people may experience conflict between short-term desires and long-term goals and that this conflict leads to over-consumption of tobacco products. Since low-income individuals are more price-sensitive, raised taxes are of higher benefit to them, as taxes reduce consumption. The is available in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish on the Economics Report page.
WLF Annual Report 2008
World Lung Foundation's 2008 Annual Report and financial statements are available in the "About WLF" portion of the website. See the 2008 Annual Report
Conferences
WLF will be presenting several posters and a
symposium session on tobacco control mass media
at The
Union World Conference on Lung
Health, taking place in Cancun,
Mexico from December 3-7, 2009. The theme of
the conference is "Poverty and lung
health."
This theme is highly relevant for our
colleagues who work to reduce the burden of
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, asthma, pneumonia,
and tobacco-related and other lung
diseases, as well as the health
consequences of air pollution. The important
medical, social and
economic consequences of lung health in
high-burden countries will also
be discussed. More about
conferences
Presentations
From June 28- 30 WLF and the Egypt Ministry of
Health sponsored a Tobacco Control Mass
Media Training. Powerpoint
presentations from this successful training may
be found on our presentations
page.