Legislation/ Policies

LEGISLATION/ POLICIES

MPOWER A Policy Package to Reverse the Tobacco Epidemic (WHO)

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its guidelines provide the foundation for countries to implement and manage tobacco control. To help make this a reality, WHO introduced the MPOWER measures. These measures are intended to assist in the country-level implementation of effective ….

Tobacco control legislation: an introductory guide (WHO)

This guide systematically discusses the information that will be needed to develop tobacco control legislation. It can be applied to the enactment of legislation at the national,subnational and local levels. The guide considers the role of legislation, key terms and concepts, capacity-building, strategic choices in legislation ….

Tobacco control in Africa: People, politics and policies

This volume presents the work initiated and executed under the African Tobacco Situational Analyses, a recent major public health initiative sponsored by the Canada’s International Development Research Centre. Conceived to illuminate the factors that will facilitate the reform of Africa’s major public health policies, this program focused particularly (but not exclusively) on policies concerning tobacco.