title: [Tobacco: its control is urgently needed].
abstract: Smoking is a chronic disease that kills five million yearly. Nicotine is responsible for the addictive part. Smoking is quite neglected, due to its predominance in poor and underdeveloped countries. Available smoking cessation programs have a limited role to play. Fighting tobacco dependence requires a multidisciplinary approach involving awareness campaigns, enforcing no smoking laws in public places, raising taxes and careful watching of our kids not to get addicted.
authors.affiliation: dk01@aub.edu.lb
authors.forename: Nadim
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanj
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007861:Lebanon; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention