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Therefore, in order to score the questionnaire and create the scale we had to assign scores to each tobacco control policy. To do this ENSP convened a panel of experts to agree the allocation of points to the scale. The panel exchanged emails from January to April 2004 and some of them met during an ENSP meeting in Krakow in May 2004. The panel included a leading American tobacco control economist, who was the World Bank representative to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) negotiations in Geneva, and tobacco control experts from different regions in Europe. On average the participants had more than 20 years experience in tobacco control. They contributed mostly to the weighting of price, smoke-free policies and advertising, mainly by email. None refused to join the project.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","hash":"8372ad97d173328bdea9bcbda285fcb8","css":"","js":""}