Tobacco Tightrope — Balancing Disease Prevention and Economic Development in China

In 2005, China ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Drs. Alexi Wright and Ingrid Katz write that as international pressure to cut tobacco use mounts, the Chinese government struggles to balance advancing the country's economy with maintaining the health of its society and garnering global support. Dr. Steven Schroeder, director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses the history of research on smoking-related illness and the state of tobacco control in the United States and the developing world.