CONTENTS -- Summary -- Introduction -- Background -- Process and data sources -- PART 1 Tobacco consumption and tobacco-related harm -- Summary -- Prevalence of tobacco use -- Smoking prevalence among adults -- Smoking prevalence among young people -- Socioeconomic differences -- Tobacco-related harm -- Summary -- Burden of disease attributable to tobacco use -- Tobacco-related mortality -- Tobacco-related costs -- PART 2 Tobacco Control Policies -- Measures to reduce the demand for tobacco products -- Price and taxation policies -- Exposure to tobacco smoke (passive smoking, environmental tobacco smoke) -- Advertising, promotion and sponsorship -- Education, information and public awareness -- Smoking cessation -- Product control and consumer information -- Measures to reduce the supply of tobacco products -- Illicit trade -- Availability of tobacco to young people -- Tobacco subsidies -- The WHO FCTC -- The negotiation process and the European coordination mechanism -- Status of the WHO FCTC -- The Conference of the Parties -- Region-wide action -- Facilitating Region-wide political commitment -- International support for building national capacity -- Strengthening international coordination -- Information exchange, technical cooperation and monitoring -- Other policy issues -- Intersectoral coordination, funding, plans and programmes of action -- Developments in EU tobacco control policy -- The tactics of the tobacco industry -- Litigation -- Conclusions -- References -- Annex 1 Case studies -- Annex 2 Comparable estimates of adult daily smoking prevalence in the WHO European Region -- Annex 3 Methodology for assessing tobacco smoking prevalence -- Annex 4 Adult smoking prevalence in the WHO European Region -- Annex 5 World No Tobacco Day Award winners, 2002-2006.