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Appendix V: Country profiles

The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009 provides essential data on the tobacco epidemic and selected tobacco control measures in 189 participating WHO Member States and 1 territory. Appendix V provides detailed information about tobacco prevention policies and tobacco economics in the 28 countries that have the largest number of tobacco smokers in the world. Together, these countries represent over 85% of the smokers in the world, as measured by their population and WHO-adjusted estimates of prevalence of current tobacco use among adults aged 15 years and older (Appendix VII).

For some of the countries, notes in Appendix IV provide additional information on selected tobacco control measures.

Most 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.