Impact assessment of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: introduction, general findings and discussion

The emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as the leading cause of global death and disease became evident towards the end of the 1990s. Awareness of this development led in 2000 to the adoption of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Strategy on Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases and subsequent publicity.1 2 Well before this, governments, health authorities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had developed...