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  • Obvladovanje uporabe tobaka nekoč, danes in v prihodnje = Control over tobacco use: yesterday, today and tomorrow
    Čakš, Tomaž
    The illness and death are caused by the use of tobacco and by exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. There was a lot of trying to limit tobacco use inthe history without any success. Not earlier ... than last few decades in developed countries they succeeded to reduce the use of tobacco products due to cognition about huge number of toxic tobacco components, their influence onhuman health and nicotin addiction. In the developed countries they took themeasures to reduce tobacco use on the country level and to help smokers whoare addicted. They created legislation that covered tobacco products sale, advertising, labeling, assessment, smoke free places and tobacco cessation. Slovenia has been relatively successful in combating tobacco epidemic but there is still need to be more active on this field. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the worlds first treaty on public health veryimportant especially for developing countries which have no legislation ontobacco control yet. It is very important for every country to contain on one hand the measures for the restriction of tobacco consumption and on the other hand the measures for the prevention of harmful effects of tobacco consumption and to help smokers guit.
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2005
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 19851737