Beneficence or maleficence - Big Tobacco and smokeless products

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)

Editorial highlights recent developments among tobacco transnationals and how the tobacco control community should respond. Industry mergers and takeovers by Philip Morris USA and Reynolds American and revitalized marketing of smokeless tobacco products, underscores the urgent need for a regulatory framework for all tobacco and nicotine products which would also set limits for contents and extend controls on packaging and marketing.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02483.x

Comment: The tobacco problem is NOT going away anytime soon...