1982/08/21 by Richard Cooper · 20 citations
Medicine · #Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors #Soviet union #Lung cancer #Government (linguistics) #Cigarette smoking #Coronary heart disease #Environmental health #Political science #Consumption (sociology) #Disease #Development economics #Medicine #Economic growth #Social science #Sociology #Law #Oncology #Pathology #Economics #Internal medicine
paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6341.549
published in BMJ 285(6341), 549-551
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Although it is the fourth largest producer of tobacco in the world, relatively little has been written about the problem in the USSR. Since the economy is centrally planned and marketing of tobacco products is under direct government control it might be expected that the Soviet Union would implement different, perhaps, more effective, antismoking campaigns. Unfortunately, this has not been the case.