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The Global Tobacco Surveillance System

Correspondence to:
Charles W Warren
PhD, Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, MS-K50, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717 USA; wcw1@cdc.gov

Abbreviations: CDC, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CPHA, Canadian Public Health Association; ESPAD, European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Drugs; GHPS, Global Health Professionals Survey; GSPS, Global School Personnel Survey; GTSS, Global Tobacco Surveillance System; GYTS, Global Youth Tobacco Survey; HBSC, Health Behaviour in School Aged Children; OSH, Office on Smoking and Health; TFI, Tobacco Free Initiative; WHO, World Health Organization

Keywords: surveillance; tobacco

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In December 1998, the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative (WHO TFI) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health (CDC OSH) convened a meeting to discuss the need for collecting data on tobacco use among adults and adolescents. In addition to WHO and CDC, at least one country representative from each of the six WHO Regions and other international agencies, such as UNICEF and the World Bank, attended the meeting. The groups reached consensus on several points.

First, consistent cross-country data did not exist regarding questionnaire content, sampling methodology, and data analysis. This was true for adults and adolescents. Many individual countries (especially developed countries) had good surveillance systems in place for adult data (see Tobacco Control Country Profiles, volumes I and II), some countries had systems in place for data on adolescents (for example, Australia, Canada, Thailand, and the United States), . . . [Full text of this article]