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WHO Technical Report Series
Series
967
WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation: Fourth Report of a WHO Study Group
Paperback
August 2012
9789241209670
More details
- Publisher
World Health Organization - Published
28th August 2012 - ISBN 9789241209670
- Language English
- Pages 90 pp.
- Size 8.25" x 10.5"
$36.00
This report presents the conclusions reached and recommendations made by the members of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation at its sixth meeting, during which it reviewed two background papers specially commissioned for the meeting and which dealt, respectively, with the following two themes.
1. Toxic elements in tobacco and in cigarette smoke
2. The basis for a regulatory framework to reduce the dependence potential of tobacco products
The Study Group s recommendations in relation to each theme are set out at the end of the section dealing
with that theme; its overall recommendations are summarized in section 4.
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