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Uneven and anaemic implementation of tobacco control measures means that richer countries are unlocking the economic and health benefits of strong tobacco control, while the industry is still preying on emerging economies in ways that will lock in harms for a generation or more, one of the lead authors of the report Jeffrey Drope, of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told Health Policy Watch

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A longitudinal study published in 2009, for example, found that only 0.3% of cigarette smokers had shifted to smokeless tobacco, and cigarettes continue to far outpace smokeless products in popularity

This marks a much faster demographic transition than many countries experienced historically