World No Tobacco Day

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How far will the tobacco industry go to beckon young consumers towards a lifetime of nicotine addiction and tobacco use? For World No Tobacco Day 2024, we invite you to expand your awareness about tobacco and nicotine product advertising that persistently targets youth and tell the tobacco industry once and for all: “Unfollow me.” Learn more on our resource page, and enter our “Call to Unfollow” Video Contest for an opportunity to win a prize!

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SRNT Conference Presentations

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SRNT’s Annual Meeting is the leading scientific forum for the latest nicotine and tobacco research. Over four days, more than 1,400 international attendees attended plenary lectures, paper sessions and symposia, and multiple scientific poster sessions. Members of the IGTC team presented a wide range of research during the annual meeting.

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Anthem Award Winner

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IGTC brought home a silver medal from the third annual Anthem Awards in recognition of Spinning a Global Web, an analysis of youth-targeted point-of-sale cigarette advertising near schools and playgrounds in 42 low- and middle-income countries around the world. 

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Visit our YouTube channel to see updates from our faculty and staff as well as lectures from tobacco control experts across the globe as part of our Innovations in Tobacco Control series. Subscribe to be notified when we add a new video.

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Featured Research

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Social Media Marketing by E-cigarette and Heated Tobacco Product Brands in the Philippines

IGTC researchers examined the marketing strategies used and product characteristics advertised via social media by 39 e-cigarette and heated tobacco product (HTP) brands available in the Philippines to interact with consumers and increase user engagement.

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What Policies May Help Filipino Adults Quit Smoking?

This study analyzed data from a national, online survey of adults in the Philippines who smoke to estimate what policies could potentially support increased cigarette quit behavior. The results are detailed in this fact sheet.

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Online Marketing of E-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products on Brand Websites in Vietnam

We examined the product characteristics and marketing strategies used on seven e-cigarette or HTP brand websites targeting Vietnamese consumers and found devices and cartridges marketed on the sites along with advertising appeals, marketing messages such as claims about the brand or the product, and promotion strategies.

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Online Marketing of E-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products on Brand Websites in China

IGTC conducted a study to explore marketing strategies used and product characteristics advertised on e-cigarette and HTP brand websites in China following implementation of these policies. The key findings are summarized on this fact sheet, which provides evidence to support enhanced monitoring and enforcement.

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E-cigarette Use Among Filipino Adults Who Smoke

Amidst increased e-cigarette use prevalence in the Philippines, IGTC conducted an online survey of Filipino adults who smoke to examine e-cigarette awareness, use patterns, and reasons for e-cigarette use.

Tobacco Watcher

Tobacco Watcher is an automated media monitoring and intelligence site that scans the news and provides you with current articles pertaining to your interests.

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Perform an Analysis. Graph and identify peaks and falls in topic coverage online in a chosen timeframe.

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Set Custom Alerts. Instantly receive any articles on a product or keyword or any topic of interest regularly.

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Search Articles. Filter content based on theme: bans, industry, prevalence, quitting, and more.

Online Courses

Changing the Game with Open Access to Expert Content

Learning from the Experts is a free online course breaking down the fundamentals of tobacco control, including its history, surveillance, and impacts. This course will help individuals build, monitor, and assess interventions on any scale using case studies and examples from around the world.

Global Tobacco Control: Learning From the Experts

With six themed modules, the course allows anyone from public health professionals to students to increase their understanding of tobacco control topics, including learning how to prevent harm as tobacco products change and evolve.

Fundamentals of Tobacco Control
Tobacco or Health
The Tobacco Industry
Economics
Tobacco Control Interventions: Part I
Tobacco Control Interventions: Part II
Surveillance and Evaluation
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A Course for Healthcare Professionals

With three themed modules, this course teaches healthcare providers how to prevent harm as tobacco products change and evolve.

How Can You Be Involved in Tobacco Control
Best Practices in International Tobacco Control
Helping People Quit Tobacco
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Tobacco and COVID-19

This online course provides current evidence on tobacco use and COVID-19, and it covers topics such as the impact of smoking on COVID-19, the effects of nicotine at a molecular level and more.

Covid-19 and Tobacco Use
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The Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS)

TPackSS, developed with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies through the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, contains a visual database of cigarette packs from 14 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to monitor how tobacco companies are marketing their products and track their compliance with tobacco pack requirements including health warning labels.

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Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub

The Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub offers tobacco control advocates a new online treaty monitoring platform with multiple user-friendly dashboards featuring more than 300 performance indicators from more than 180 reporting countries. Explore multi-year trends to monitor, analyze and report on global tobacco control progress through engaging color-coded maps and graphic visualizations.

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Where We Work

As a collaborating centre of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2004, our work takes place around the globe. We concentrate primarily on the 10 priority countries of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use - Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Ukraine and Vietnam. 

Through our work together and with other organizations, we have produced reports to support tobacco control action in low- and middle-income countries. Learn more about our projects by choosing a region to explore.