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"Debate" is a new
series offering opposing sides of a continuing, controversial issue in
tobacco control. In this and the next article, David Hill, director of
the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Anti-Cancer Council of
Victoria, Australia and Matthew Myers, executive vice president of the
National Center for Tobacco Free Kids in Washington, DC, USA, debate
whether tobacco control programmes should be targeted principally at
adults or the young.
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Population-wide tobacco control programmes should aim to reduce teenage and adult smoking. The strategic tobacco control question is about where to put emphasis and how to approach the problem. There are two perspectives from which to argue for an emphasis upon cessation of smoking in adults ahead of prevention of uptake in teenagers: the epidemiology-based and the psychology-based perspectives.
At the tenth world conference on tobacco or health in 1997, Professor
Sir Richard Peto used an epidemiological argument that cessation
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