Topics and Expertise: tobacco control

Health care spending drops quickly with reduced smoking

Tue May 10, 2016
A new study lead-authored by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member James Lightwood, PhD, has found that reducing smoking cuts health care spending, not just in the long- or immediate-term, but the very next year.

Raising the Smoking Age

Tue Mar 22, 2016

WHO plan for global tobacco control contested by US

Thu Mar 6, 2003
A plan seeded in 1996 by the World Health Organization for an international agreement, [Framework Convention on Tobacco Control] [link defunct]," is undergoing final discussions by member states before submission to the World Health Assembly in May.