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Anti-tobacco multi-component community interventions
Summary of the evidence
Coordinated, widespread, multi-component community interventions include age restrictions on tobacco purchase, programs for prevention of disease (like heart disease), mass media and school programs. Such interventions were found in a systematic review of 17 studies (Sowden and Stead, 2003) to:
- reduce smoking prevalence when compared to no intervention control and to school-based programmes only;
- reduce the rate of increase in smoking prevalence when compared to mass-media campaign alone.
