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  2. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - Wikipedia

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    In order to counter concerns that international tobacco control legislation would unduly harm economies of which tobacco farming, manufacturing, and sale were an important part, the WHO cited a landmark World Bank publication entitled Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control (CTE), which asserted that tobacco ...

  3. Alcohol and society - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol education is the planned provision of information and skills relevant to living in a world where alcohol is commonly misused. [4] WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, highlights the fact that alcohol will be a larger problem in later years, with estimates suggesting it will be the leading cause of disability and death.

  4. Tobacco control - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use tobacco, tobacco control also concerns these.

  5. Top supermarkets running 'prohibited' tobacco ads - AOL

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    Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which makes Ploom, said the 2002 law defines a tobacco product as something that is "smoked, sniffed, sucked or chewed", and because heated tobacco products do ...

  6. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Wikipedia

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    At this time, the name of the ATU was changed to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division (ATTD). In 1968, with the passage of the Gun Control Act, the agency changed its name again, this time to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and first began to be referred to by the initials "ATF". In Title XI of the Organized Crime Control ...

  7. Alcohol law - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol laws are laws relating to manufacture, use, as being under the influence of and sale of alcohol (also known formally as ethanol) or alcoholic beverages. Common alcoholic beverages include beer , wine , (hard) cider , and distilled spirits (e.g., vodka , rum , gin ).

  8. International regulation - Wikipedia

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    "International regulation" is regulation that occurs at the international level, often exercised by international organizations.An advantage of international regulation is that it allows localities and the individuals in them to be held accountable for the impact that their actions (e.g. pollution) have on other localities.

  9. Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    Together, tobacco and alcohol cause about 20% of all yearly deaths in the USA. It is argued that inconsistency between the harm caused and the legal status of these common drugs undermines the declared motives of the law enforcement agencies to reduce harm by prohibition, for example of marijuana. [164]