Appendix I provides an overview of selected tobacco control policies. For each WHO region an overview table is presented that includes information on monitoring and prevalence, smoke-free environments, treatment of tobacco dependence, health warnings and packaging, advertising, promotion and sponsorship bans, and taxation levels, based on the methodology outlined in Technical Note I.
Country-level data were often but not always provided with supporting documents such as laws, regulations, policy documents, etc. Available documents were reviewed by WHO and questionnaire answers were amended accordingly, especially for Member States that reported meeting the highest standards. This review, however, does not constitute a thorough and complete legal analysis of each country’s legislation. Except for smokefree environments, data were collected at the national/federal level only and, therefore, provide incomplete policy coverage for Member States where subnational governments play an active role in tobacco control.
Age-standardized prevalence estimates for both sexes combined were produced by applying global population weights for males and females to the agestandardized adult male and female daily smoking prevalence rates (as presented in Appendix VII). Global male and female population weights were obtained from the UN population data for 2006.
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