Developing tobacco control

Bhutan intends to be the first tobacco-free country by 2004. In 2003 12 out of 13 districts were self-declared tobacco-free. Bhutan's campaign has been based on religious and health education.

Cotidine (the derivative of nicotine in the body) levels in the urine of non-smokers in the USA dropped 75 percent in nonsmokers in the period 1991 to 2001.

1. Preventing
2. Developing
3. Controlling
4. Banning

1. Stopping smoking
2. Regulating tobacco
3. Reducing youth smoking
4. Reducing chemical levels in cigarettes
5. Protecting children from environmental tobacco smoke
6. Prohibiting smoking in public places
7. Monitoring tobacco production
8. Labelling tobacco products
9. Developing work place smoking policies
10. Countering tobacco advertising
11. Banning tobacco products
12. Banning cigarette advertising

1. Reducing demand for tobacco consumption

1. Determining civil liability
2. Collecting data on incidence of smoking
3. Campaigning against smoking

1. Smoking

1. Encouraging smoking

1. Growing tobacco as fuel and food

1. Self-control
2. Banning

1. Tobacco Control
2. Development Bulletin No. 54 April 2001 Tobacco and development: Critical issues for the 21st century
3. Tobacco control
4. Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control