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SMA takes a stand: background readings

World Health Organization. An International Treaty for Tobacco Control. http://www.who.int/features/2003/08/en.  (Accessed 26 September 2006). Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003.

WHO Tobacco Free Initiative. Building Blocks for Tobacco Control: A Handbook. http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/general/
HANDBOOK%20Lowres%20with%20cover.pdf Geneva: World Health Organization, 2004.

The World Bank, 1999. Curbing the epidemic: Governments and the economics of tobacco control. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.

Ezzati, M., Lopez, A.D. 2003. Estimates of global mortality attributable to smoking in 2000. Lancet. 362:847-852.

Efroymson D., Ahmed, S., Townsend, J., Alam, A.M., Dey, A.R., Saha, R., et al. 2001. Hungry for tobacco: an analysis of the economic impact of tobacco consumption on the poor in Bangladesh. Tobacco Control 10:212-217.

Geist H. J. 1999. Global Assessment of Deforestation Related to Tobacco Farming. Tobacco Control, 8:18-28.

Kaufman, N. and Nichter, Mimi. 2001.The marketing of tobacco to women: Global perspectives. In J.M. Samet and S.Y. Soon (Eds.) Women and the Tobacco Epidemic: Challenges for the 21st Century. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Wander N, Malone RE. Making Big Tobacco Give In: You Lose, They Win. Published Ahead of Print on October 3, 2006, as 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075119 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/AJPH.2005.075119v1American Journal of Public Health, November 2006.