page_title: Tobacco control
hierarchical_section_title: Tobacco control
caption_attribution_description: English: TC activists in Mumbai 2009
context_page_description: Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use tobacco tobacco control also impacts these. E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco itself, but do contain nicotine. Tobacco control is a priority area for the World Health Organization, through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. References to a tobacco control movement may have either positive or negative connotations.
context_section_description: Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. Since most cigarettes and cigars and hookahs contain/use tobacco tobacco control also impacts these. E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco itself, but (often) do contain nicotine. Tobacco control is a priority area for the World Health Organization (WHO), through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. References to a tobacco control movement  may have either positive or negative connotations.
caption: Tobacco control activists in Mumbai, 2009
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