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Jonathan Nadel, BS, Vaughan Rees, PhD and Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH

The authors are with the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Vaughan Rees, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark Bldg 3rd Floor E, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: vrees@hsph.harvard.edu).

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In "Origins of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control," Roemer et al. present a compelling argument for a unified global approach to tobacco control.¹ However, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will not benefit nonsignatory countries, which tend to have few or no existing tobacco control measures in place. Indonesia is the only Asian country that failed to sign the treaty. Significantly, Indonesia is also one of the largest tobacco markets in the world, with smoking rates in excess of 60% for adult males and 20% for 10-year-old males.² Altria, the parent company of US cigarette giant Philip Morris . . . [Full Text]