Abstract
Abstract
[Background] Articles related to tobacco control activities have been increasing in number at the Japanese Society of Public Health. To clarify the beginning and time trend of such presentations, we reviewed all papers presented at annual meetings during 1954 and 2008.
[Methods] All the supplements for the Society between the 9 th meeting in 1954 and the 67 th meeting in 2008 were examined. When those titles or abstracts contained terms related to tobacco control, we selected and counted them as tobacco control papers.
[Results] The first papers by Yamaguchi on room pollution with tobacco smoke and other pollutants in a crowded train and by Hirayama and Hamano on environmental causes including tobacco for lung cancer appeared both in 1954. After 1979, more than 11 articles were presented annually for successive 30 years. In 2001,57 papers were recorded and this was the largest in number. Compared with the minimum session other than tobacco control, tobacco control session was same or larger in 24 years after 1978.
[Conclusion] The first tobacco control article was recorded in 1954, and more than 11 papers found annually after 1979.
