TY - JOUR T1 - World: a guide to evaluating FCTC led policies JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 296 LP - 297 VL - 16 IS - 5 AU - David Simpson Y1 - 2007/10/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/16/5/296.2.abstract N2 - Since the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) became binding international law in February 2005, it has already generated a large number of policy initiatives, which public health researchers have an obligation to ensure are as effective as possible. Towards this end, a working group formed by 26 scientists from nine countries and the WHO, under the joint chairmanship of Ron Borland (Australia) and Mike Cummings (USA), met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, in March this year to outline a common conceptual framework for the evaluation of FCTC tobacco control policies, to guide assessments about what policies work and why they work. The result of their work, to be published next year as the 12th handbook in the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention series, will provide a theory driven framework that IARC plans to apply in the evaluation of specific tobacco control policy interventions. As … ER -