About the Atlas

This website is a preview of The Tobacco Atlas, 3rd Edition, which will launch March 10, 2009.

Tobacco—the only consumer product proven to kill more than half of its regular users—is responsible for about 6 million deaths worldwide every year. One hundred million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th century. Unless effective measures are implemented to prevent young people from smoking and to help current smokers quit, tobacco will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century.

The latest edition of this groundbreaking Atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics about tobacco use and control. Full-color maps and graphics illustrate in a clear and accessible format the wide range of tobacco issues, revealing similarities and differences between countries, and exposing the behavior of the tobacco industry.It also examines solutions and predicts the future course of the epidemic.

Topics include:

• History of tobacco
• Prevalence and consumption
• Youth and secondhand smoking
• Health risks and mortality
• Economic costs of tobacco
• Growing tobacco
• Global trade and taxation
• The tobacco industry
• Marketing
• Buying influence
• Health education and quitting
• Legal regulations and litigation
• Religion
• The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
• The future of the epidemic