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Preventing Cancer by Ending Tobacco Use

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Epidemiologic Studies in Cancer Prevention and Screening

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Tobacco use is the leading cause of cancer and many other diseases. For over 50 years, it has been known that prevention of tobacco use would prevent millions of deaths, yet tobacco use remains stubbornly persistent. Progressively more restrictive tobacco control measures that are mainly aimed at changing the smoking behaviour of individuals have slowed the progress of the tobacco epidemic somewhat. Tobacco companies have become expert in adapting to tobacco control measures and neutralizing or mitigating their effect. The profit-seeking motivation that directs corporate behaviour will likely lead to their continuing adaptive behaviour in the future. A continued focus on smokers, characteristic of many current tobacco control measures, may slow the progress of the tobacco epidemic but is unlikely to bring it to an end. In the future, in addition to more and more effective measures that will influence individual behaviour, tobacco control will need to be expanded to include measures directed at changing the ways tobacco suppliers do business.

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Collishaw, N., Callard, C. (2013). Preventing Cancer by Ending Tobacco Use. In: Miller, A. (eds) Epidemiologic Studies in Cancer Prevention and Screening. Statistics for Biology and Health, vol 79. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5586-8_2

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