{"content":"<section class=\"ffb-id-iej4jgo icon-box-v3 text-left fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"icon-box-v3-title-paragraph ff-richtext fg-text-dark ffb-description-1\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There is evidence that comprehensive tobacco control programmes reduce smoking prevalence. However, there have been relatively few attempts so far to measure the implementation of tobacco control policies systematically at country level. This paper has two main aims: to quantify the implementation of tobacco control policies at country level using the new Tobacco Control Scale (TCS); to report initial results using the scale. The scale is based on six policies which, according to the evidence, should be prioritised in comprehensive tobacco control programmes. They are described by the World Bank and listed below. We describe how a questionnaire was designed to quantify the implementation of these interventions at country level, and how a scoring system was designed to create the scale. Finally we present initial results, showing countries ranked by their TCS score, and discuss the merits and limitations of the scale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The World Bank list of effective tobacco control interventions.<\/span> The June 2003 World Bank fact sheet, <span style=\"color: #808080\"><a style=\"color: #808080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/health\/brief\/tobacco\">Tobacco control at a glance (2015)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0described six cost effective tobacco control interventions:<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n \t<li>Price increases through higher taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.<\/li>\n \t<li>bans\/restrictions on smoking in public and work places<\/li>\n \t<li>better consumer information, including public information campaigns, media coverage, and publicising research findings<\/li>\n \t<li>Comprehensive bans on the advertising and promotion of all tobacco products, logos and brand names.<\/li>\n \t<li>Large, direct health warning labels on cigarette boxes and other tobacco products<\/li>\n \t<li>Treatment to help dependent smokers stop, including increased access to medications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The evidence suggests that the best results are achieved when a comprehensive set of measures are implemented together. We briefly review these six interventions here.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>","hash":"6245cc9c8aa89a13691eaa06e58a5de8","css":".ffb-id-iej4jgo{ \nmargin-bottom: 10px;\n\n}\n","js":""}