Tobacco burdens our health systems. It costs taxpayers money. It hampers the productivity of our economies.
Tobacco obviously provides economic benefits to producers.
But solid economic analysis clearly concludes that the costs of tobacco exceed by far its estimated economic benefits, she said. Dr. Brundtland said world leaders should really worry about the growth in tobacco consumption, adding, Our main battlefield on children and tobacco is in that strange, exhilarating and often confusing landscape called adolescence. We must enter the discotheques, the schools and the sports arenas. In many countries, cigarettes are given out for free on the dance floors. We have to win these spaces back.