EDITORIAL
Women and smoking
Special effects: tobacco policies and low socioeconomic status girls and women
1 British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada
2 American Legacy Foundation, Washington, USA
3 University of Rhode Island, USA
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr L Greaves
BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Box 48, E 311 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, Canada, V6H 3N1; lgreaves@cw.bc.ca
Currently little is known about the specific effects of tobacco policies on low income girls and women. Research is vital on such effects both in developed and developing countries.
Keywords: low income; smoking; tobacco; policy; women
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Tobacco use is a global public health problem of epic proportion, which threatens to kill one of two smokers and harm many non-smokers along the way. The World Health Organisation views both tobacco use and tobacco production as a dire threat to world health, contributing to early death, chronic diseases, poverty, environmental degradation, and labour exploitation.1 Tobacco use has typically been patterned along gender and class lines, with higher class males typically beginning to smoke before females and those in lower socioeconomic classes.2–4
In developed countries, there have been great successes in tobacco control, reducing rates of smoking by half in countries such as the USA, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom over the past 40 years. These achievements reflect the success of the comprehensive tobacco policy approach, linking several key regulatory and legal policies together in the effort to reduce tobacco use. These policies include
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