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Tobacco Control 2008;17:3
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NEWS ANALYSIS

TURKEY: NEW FEARS, NEW HOPES

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Long-term readers of Tobacco Control may have felt quite giddy at times from the rollercoaster developments of Turkey's tobacco control policy. There was little movement at the start, of course, but once the thing got going, speedy policy gains were followed by hopes being dashed by economic supremos insisting on letting the free market—for which read Philip Morris and friends—being allowed seemingly unfettered access to the nation’s huge youth population. Next there was to be a comprehensive tobacco bill, then it got stuck and, even after finally being passed into law, the government seemed highly reluctant to enforce it.

All that is history now, an optimist might think, with the new start offered by the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). But the white knuckle ride has started again, with news late last year that the much needed smoke-free bill required under the FCTC had left the . . . [Full text of this article]


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