Health Education Research, Vol. 16, No. 3, 384-385,
June 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
BOOK REVIEW |
Tobacco Control in Developing Countries
Prabhat Jha and Frank Chaloupka (eds) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000 490 pp. ISBN 0-19-263246-9 (pb)
Primary Nurse, South Leeds Community Unit Day Hospital,Community & Mental Health Services, Leeds
This scholarly, informative and demanding book is published on behalf of the Human Development Network, the World Bank and the Economics Advisory Service, WHO. With such a pedigree one would expect a study of considerable depth and importance. It is rewarding to note that this book does not disappoint.
Comprehensively charted and illustrated, the most chilling statistics are served up in the dedication: `...to the approximately 100 million people who have died in the twentieth century as a result of smoking.