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New resource for medical associations
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has a long history of involvement with tobacco control, so it seems appropriate that it is home to the new Tobacco Control Resource Centre, established on behalf of the European Forum of Medical Associations and the World Health Organisation (WHO) European region. The Centre is funded by the European Commission, WHO, and the BMA, and receives support from national medical associations (NMAs). The principal aim of the project is to encourage doctors across the European region to stop smoking, as well as to increase the knowledge and skills of doctors in smoking cessation, and to promote and support tobacco control activities by NMAs.
Although the prevalence of smoking among doctors is down to a few
percent in some European countries
6% in Sweden, for examplethe picture varies dramatically across the 51 countries of the European region. In central and eastern Europe, a quarter to
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