''Tobacco Control'' is an international

peer-reviewed journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

covering the nature and consequences of

tobacco use Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or simply released from the mouth, as is generally done with pipes and cigars. The practice is believe ...

worldwide; tobacco's effects on population

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

, the economy, the environment, and society; efforts to prevent and control the global tobacco epidemic through population-level education and

policy Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an orga ...

changes; the ethical dimensions of tobacco control policies; and the activities of the

tobacco industry The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any ...

and its allies. It was established in 1992 and is published by

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. The founding

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was Ronald Davis ( Michigan Department of Community Health), and the current one is

Ruth Malone Ruth E. Malone is an American tobacco control researcher and policy analyst. She is professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She has been the editor-in-chief of ...

(

University of California San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It condu ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 6.726.

Editors

The following people have served as editor-in-chief of the journal: * 1992-1998: Ronald Davis ( Michigan Department of Community Health) * 1998-2008: Simon Chapman (

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) * Since 2009:

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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/Clinical Medicine * Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences *

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/ Tobacco control journals BMJ Group academic journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1992 English-language journals Addiction medicine journals