Cover. Children in Dakar, Senegal, play with a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Although the new WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control limits the advertising of cigarettes, the power of international brands like Marlboro presents an ongoing challenge to public health practitioners worldwide (see p936). This image was provided by Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control, a program of the corporate accountability group Essential Action. The program links tobacco control groups in the United States and Canada with similar groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern/Central Europe and facilitates their work on joint projects and campaigns. While public health programs and regulations are reducing smoking in many countries, multinational tobacco companies are aggressively targeting young people in regions without such controls. One of Essential Action's ongoing campaigns calls for the exclusion of tobacco products from international trade and investment agreements. For more information, see: http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco. Photograph by Anna White.
Cover concept and selection by M. Lyndon Haviland, Aleisha Kropf, and Robert Sember.
Cover. Children in Dakar, Senegal, play with a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Although the new WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control limits the advertising of cigarettes, the power of international brands like Marlboro presents an ongoing challenge to public health practitioners worldwide (see p936). This image was provided by Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control, a program of the corporate accountability group Essential Action. The program links tobacco control groups in the United States and Canada with similar groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern/Central Europe and facilitates their work on joint projects and campaigns. While public health programs and regulations are reducing smoking in many countries, multinational tobacco companies are aggressively targeting young people in regions without such controls. One of Essential Action's ongoing campaigns calls for the exclusion of tobacco products from international trade and investment agreements. For more information, see: http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco. Photograph by Anna White.