SS 13.30-15.00 Special sessions
All governments, specialized agencies and experts were requested to fill questionnaires, and to provide all legislative or contractual agreements on advertising (direct and indirect, sponsorship), labelling, protection of children, definition of tobacco products, limits on tar levels, prohibition of certain products and smoking in public places.
Systematic computer searches and review of the International Digest of Health Legislation and WHO data base on Tobacco Legislation were conducted. All original texts were collected at IARC and analysed.
From 1985 to 1995, the number of existing laws on tobacco control increased, in particular on tobacco advertising, smoking in public places, and protection of children, with uniformization of texts across countries, the most restrictive progressively becoming the norm. Yet countries with a policy of voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry clearly lag behind.
Tobacco legislation's major advantage is that it uniformly applies to everyone in the population and constitutes the necessary background on which to further build a structured health promotion effort. The Europe against Cancer programme played a crucial role in enhancing tobacco control in member states.
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