Concept Descriptors, Real Flavors
Tobacco companies use flavors and "concept descriptors" to entice consumers with a product that is difficult to quit. Our fact sheet breaks down how “Menthol-Plus” cigarettes require tougher bans on flavored tobacco.
Find Your Tobacco News
Our AI-driven news aggregator Tobacco Watcher finds, analyzes, and delivers the world’s tobacco-related news to help tobacco control advocates, investigators, and students find tobacco-related content they care about faster and more efficiently. Visit now to search, create alerts and more.
Free Course for Healthcare Professionals
Our online course Learning from the Experts: A Course for Healthcare Professionals has been updated. This free resource offers condensed information on tobacco control catered to healthcare professionals.
With five themed modules, the course can assist healthcare professionals with recognizing how tobacco products are used, identifying ways to treat nicotine addiction, and acting as advocates for tobacco control.
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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.
Featured Research
A new study in Bangladesh uncovered important issues for standardizing the size, shape, and material used in smokeless tobacco packages.
This study explored the nature and extent of tobacco advertising and promotions at POS near 904 junior, senior and vocational high schools in rural and urban areas of 10 cities across China.
Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, recently published a paper in Tobacco Control about the presence of headshots on many bidi and smokeless tobacco packs collected in Bangladesh and India. She outlines the findings and recommendations in this video.
Since 2013, the Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS) has collected unique cigarette packs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with the highest burden of tobacco use. Compared to 13 other LMICs (including Russia, Brazil, China, Turkey) Ukraine had the highest frequency of feminine marketing on unique packs.
Tobacco Watcher
Tobacco Watcher is an automated media monitoring and intelligence site that scans news 24/7 for you and provides a tool to search current articles instantly pertaining to your interests.
Perform an Analysis. Graph and identify peaks and falls in topic coverage online in a chosen timeframe.
Set Custom Alerts. Instantly receive any articles on a product or keyword or any topic of interest regularly.
Search Articles. Filter content based on theme: bans, industry, prevalence, quitting, and more.
Online Courses
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.
Avec six modules thématiques, le cours permet à quiconque, des professionnels de la santé publique aux étudiants, de mieux comprendre les sujets de la lutte antitabac, notamment en apprenant à prévenir les méfaits à mesure que les produits du tabac changent et évoluent.
With three-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.
The Tobacco and COVID-19 course is the newest online offering from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control. This online course provides the current evidence on tobacco use and COVID-19. The course covers topics such as the impact of smoking on COVID-19, the effects of nicotine at a molecular level and the behavior of the tobacco industry during the pandemic.
Policy Scan
We keep up with rapid changes in laws regarding e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products around the world. The policy bank has been verified by public health professionals in their respective countries.
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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