SRNT Conference Presentations
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.
Anthem Award Winner
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.
Beyond Pollution
Could branded tobacco product litter contribute to increased consumer demand? IGTC produced a new paper and video assessing the presence of tobacco product litter in nine Indian cities and addressing the problem of branded tobacco product litter as post-consumption marketing.
Visit Our YouTube Channel
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
311 unique cigarette and kretek packs displaying mandated Indonesian health warning labels (HWLs)
were systematically assessed for compliance with key requirements of Indonesian law: warning location, warning coverage, and warning label elements. In addition, three unique packs had out-of-rotation Indonesian HWLs.
IGTC assessed cigarette and e-cigarette marketing at retailers within 100m (in urban areas) or 250m (in rural areas) of middle and high schools in ten cities in China in March 2021 and April 2023. This fact sheet summarizes the study findings, compares the 2021 and 2023 results, and concludes that the sale and marketing of cigarettes in proximity to schools in China remains widespread.
From February through May 2023, we conducted semi-structured key informant interviews with 16 participants involved in the development and implementation of the ban. This research brief summarizes these conversations to provide insight into strategies to enhance compliance and reduce e-cigarette availability across India.
IGTC examined various online marketing strategies employed by companies on their brand websites to promote e-cigarettes and HTPs in the Philippines. Flavor descriptors, product promotions, and persuasive messaging or appeals using text/images were among the strategies detected consistently across all 15 sites observed. This fact sheet summarizes the study’s findings, which can help inform policy efforts and reduce harms associated with these products.
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.
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.
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.
With three themed modules, this course teaches healthcare providers how to prevent harm as tobacco products change and evolve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
