Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de santé de la Méditerranée orientale = al-Majallah al-ṣiḥḥīyah li-sharq al-mutawassiṭ
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The World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region is the only WHO region with increasing male prevalence of smoking tobacco products observed and predicted. There is no regional analysis of cigarette affordability in the literature. ⋯ The historic and persisting higher affordability of cigarettes in the EMR relative to the rest of the world could offer an explanation to the tobacco prevalence trends in the region. Continued implementation of Article 6 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is needed.