Editorial
Smoking and death in Russia
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Improvements in public health can be obtained by eliminating or reducing relatively minor risks which are more or less prevalent in populations. Much larger gains might be possible through even modest reductions of large hazards such as tobacco use. Policies and programmes to reduce tobacco consumption are more likely to be implemented and more likely to be effective if there is direct, disaggregated, and recent local evidence on the extent of tobacco use and its harms. Such evidence might usefully describe several indicators of the tobacco epidemic including the patterns of tobacco consumption by various sectors of the population, how these are changing, the extent of disease caused by tobacco (and how this is changing), as well as the economic costs of tobacco use, direct and indirect.
Public policy responses and advocacy must be based on detailed,
reliable information about tobacco use and the extent of diseases caused by it.
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