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WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco or Health Programme
Since National Cancer Center was designated as a WHO collaborating center for "tobacco or health programme" in 1981, we have been collecting information concerning smoking and health in Japan and overseas, and through analysis of the information collected, we have prepared basic data for smoking control measures. In particular, we are emphasizing the development of methods for quantitative indication of the relationship between smoking and its effects on health. In this way, it will be possible to clarify the future trends of morbidity and mortality due to smoking, which are likely to continue to worsen in future, and to estimate the efficacy of smoking control measures.