tobacco industry

Tobacco Tactics

Website

Tobacco Tactics investigate the strategies and tactics the tobacco industry uses to undermine public health. The organisation use rigorously-sourced profiles of the key players, organisations, allies and techniques of the tobacco industry...

Jersey and Guernsey Sign up to WHO's Tobacco Control

News

A public health treaty set up to cut tobacco-related diseases and deaths has been extended to Jersey and Guernsey by the UK. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the distinguished global tobacco control instrument...

Tobacco and the Environment

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

The life cycle of a cigarette takes a heavy toll on the environment from growing the tobacco plant to the disposal of butts and packaging. Although the ecological impacts of tobacco are overshadowed by its devastating effects on human...

Tobacco Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Risks and Challenges

Scientific article

21 May 2019

In recent years, the tobacco pandemic’s magnitude and trajectory has shifted away from high-income countries to low- and middle-income countries and so have the tobacco industry’s marketing efforts and tactics. Research suggests that Sub...

Tobacco Industry Strategies Undermine Government Tax Policy: Evidence from Commercial Data

Scientific article

9 October 2017

Abstract Objective: Taxation equitably reduces smoking, the leading cause of health inequalities. The tobacco industry (TI) can, however, undermine the public health gains realised from tobacco taxation through its pricing strategies. This...

Tobacco Industry Strategies Undermine Government Tax Policy: Evidence from Commercial Data

Scientific article

9 October 2017

WHO's 2017 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report

Book

14 August 2017

The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download. Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least one...

Advertising of Tobacco Products at Point of Sale: Who Are More Exposed in Brazil?

Scientific article

1 May 2017

Abstract Objective: To describe the adult population perception of cigarette advertising at point of sale, according to their tobacco use status and socio-demographic characteristics such as sex, age, race/color, region, household location...