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After five years, the World Health Organization's tobacco-control treaty is starting to have an effect, but we need to tackle the smoking epidemic in the developing world, say Jonathan M. Samet and Heather L. Wipfli.

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Institute for Global Health, Jonathan M. Samet and Heather L. Wipfli are at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. jsamet@usc.edu,

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