New American Cancer Society Report Identifies 21 Challenges and Needs for Global Tobacco Control

A new American Cancer Society report outlines 21 challenges and needs for global tobacco control, covering the wide range of issues to be addressed and expertise needed to reduce the rising tide of tobacco use worldwide, particularly in the low- and middle-income nations that are the target of the multinational tobacco industry. The report, The Globalization of Tobacco Use: 21 Challenges for the 21st Century, was published in the January/February issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The report’s authors, led by Thomas J. Glynn, PhD, director, Cancer Science and Trends and director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society, point out that the globalization of tobacco began with the European exploration of the New World more than 500 years ago. But it is only in the past 50 years that public health has responded to the death, disease, and economic disruption caused by tobacco use. Tobacco now has at least 1.3 billion users and kills more than 14,500 people every day, while debilitating and sickening many times that number. The report lists activities, policies, and interventions that must be increased or in some cases decreased in order to be successful in reducing the rising tide of tobacco use. Also, the report points to an issue it says rises above all others when considering the potential to reverse the global tobacco epidemic: the need for skilled, dedicated people to address the issues outlined in the report. The other co-authors of the report, all American Cancer Society staff, include: John R. Seffrin, PhD, national chief executive officer; Otis W. Brawley, MD, chief medical officer; Nathan Grey, MPH, national vice president, Global Health; and Hana Ross, PhD, economist and strategic director, International Tobacco Control Research.

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