World Health Organization

Who Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation: Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation: Fourth Report of a Who Study Group (Who Technical Report Series) World Health Organization 1st edition

This report presents the conclusions reached and recommendations made by the members of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation at its sixth meeting, during which it reviewed two background papers specially commissioned for the meeting and which dealt, respectively, with the following two themes.

1. Toxic elements in tobacco and in cigarette smoke
2. The basis for a regulatory framework to reduce the dependence potential of tobacco products

The Study Group s recommendations in relation to each theme are set out at the end of the section dealing
with that theme; its overall recommendations are summarized in section 4.