• full text of "Curbing the Epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control",1999 World Bank report in English  and other languages.
• all the background papers, published as "Tobacco Control in Developing Countries" 2000 (TCDC book).
• short country profiles (notes and graphs) on tobacco production, trade, use, policies etc for many countries.
• PowerPoint presentations  on tobacco and policies to reduce its harm (including talking notes).
• FAQs  and common myths and facts about tobacco control.
• tools  that explain how to analyze tobacco demand, employment, smuggling, taxation, poverty issues.
• effective interventions to reduce tobacco use at a glance.

The site is for researchers, policy-makers, advocates and others, as they choose and implement effective tobacco control measures.

500 million people alive today -- many of them still children -- will eventually die of tobacco-related diseases, if present trends persist. Modest action by governments could prevent millions and millions of deaths, without harming economies.