Development Planning and Tobacco Control: Integrating the WHO FCTC into UN and National Development Planning Instruments
1 February 2014
| Technical document
Overview
Tobacco use, driven by industry marketing and fuelled by social inequities, is killing 6 million people per year, inhibiting
socio-economic development at household, national and global levels, exacting economic burdens on national health care systems, infringing human rights and obstructing progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
WHO Team
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control DGO
Editors
Alison Cox, Brian Lutz, Douglas Webb, Michelle Sahal-Estime, Roy Small, Vijay Trivedi.
Number of pages
63
Copyright
UNDP and Secretariat of the WHO FCTC