Tobacco Articles: country central_europe

Post-communist transition and health in Europe: Transition has yielded important insights, which need to be better documented argues Kristina Fister and Martin McKee

martin.mckee@lshtm.ac.uk (Kristina Fister and Martin McKee) — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:00:00 GMT

Transition has had an impact on health in other ways. Societal changes have in some countries contributed to increases in several communicable diseases, most notably HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis.w7 Some of the health effects of transition are already apparent, but others--for example, the predictable rise in lung cancer among the young women currently being targeted by Western tobacco companies--will become apparent in the future.w8 A few countries, such as Poland, have resisted the tobacco companies and put in place policies that are ahead of many Western countries and have demonstrable benefits.w8

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Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:00:00 GMT

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Hungry for Hungary: examples of tobacco industry's expansionism: Szilgyi, T., Chapman, S. / Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Sydney 2006, Australia

h21hf@axelero.hu — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:00:00 GMT

Objective: To give an overview of available internal tobacco industry documents on the transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) efforts to enter the new market of the emerging democracy of Hungary and how it developed allies in its efforts at resisting tobacco control regulations. . . . Conclusions: TTCs not only invaded the markets of the fragile new CEE democracies by making their product widely available, but also introduced sophisticated lobbying and marketing tactics. TTCs will try to shape the countrys regulatory framework in a manner to help increase their profits. The fiercer the reaction of TTCs against a planned regulatory measure is, the more impact on the health of the population could be expected from the introduction and enforcement of that measure.

Anti-Tobacco Coalition of Eastern Europe and Central Asia founded

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 05:00:00 GMT

Representatives of civil society of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine founded the Coalition For Tobacco Smoke-Free Eastern Europe and Central Asia on 20 February in Geneva. The coalition was founded within the framework of the sixth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which ended on 28 February.

EDITORIAL: Welcome from the Editor

Sat, 31 Mar 2001 05:00:00 GMT

shortly after switching over to market economy health indicators worsened and reached a never experienced depth. These years were of big successes for Big Tobacco in the region. They came from West and presented the custom of smoking as "a chic of freedom" . . After years of experiencing the shadow side of the "best corporate citizenship" of American and Western European tobacco multinationals a new wave of tobacco control movement seems to grow up along with a core of committed, skilled tobacco control advocates. . . Health 21 Hungarian Foundation -- founded by Mr Péter Kricsfalvi, former commissioner of public health of the Ministry of Welfare -- is pledged to design tobacco control as one of its priorities and key directions of action.

Central Europe to See Rise in Cancer Deaths

Wed, 05 Jul 2000 04:00:00 GMT

The number of deaths from cancers related to alcohol and tobacco use will rise dramatically in several central European countries over the next ten years, according to French researchers. . . And the worst is not over, according to the researchers' projections of cancer deaths for these nations. Dr. Paul Brennan and colleagues from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, collected and analyzed data from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania on cancer deaths from 1965 to 1994. . . ``Our results,'' the team concludes, ``indicate that further increases may be expected on top of the already high cancer mortality levels in Central Europe. Policies to reduce alcohol consumption and prevent smoking in younger generations are necessary to reduce mortality as these (groups) age.'' SOURCE: International Journal of Cancer 2000;87:122-128.