Trillion dollar economic burden underlines need for tobacco control
Vital Strategies, a global health not-for profit organization, welcomes the publication of a report from World Health Organization and the National Cancer Institute that examines The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control. This comprehensive analysis of the latest evidence from high and low income countries, around tobacco use, tobacco growing, manufacturing and trade, tobacco product taxes and prices, and tobacco control policies, concludes that smoking costs the global economy US $1 trillion every year.