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particularly in developing countries, given that the burden of the tobacco epidemic is
shifting to these population groups (Jacobs 2001). More recently, the major research
funding councils in Canada in 2001 supported a national expert seminar to identify
research gaps and develop a multidisciplinary research agenda on teenage girls and
smoking (Greaves and Cormier 2002).
Conclusion
At the beginning of the twentieth century few people could have imagined how such a
stigmatized behaviour as female smoking would be transformed, through judicious
marketing by the tobacco companies, into a socially acceptable and desirable behaviour
in developed countries. The challenge facing us at beginning of the twenty-first
century is how to stem the second wave of the tobacco epidemic, particularly in developing
countries and among disadvantaged women in developed countries. There
needs to be wider recognition that women’s tobacco use is a global health problem and
that effective women-centred tobacco control programmes should be implemented at
international as well as national levels. Clearly there is a need to ban all tobacco promotion.
But building support for women-centred tobacco control programmes
through partnerships will also be vital to achieve success. In particular, there is a need
to work with and involve both women’s organizations and women themselves, and to
broaden the agenda to encompass other social and economic factors that work against
girls and women breaking free from this fatal addiction (INWAT Europe 2003).
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