Cessation

Policies to increase the price of cigarettes, increase the size of graphic health warning labels, require cigarettes be sold in plain packaging without branding, and ban flavored cigarettes have the potential to support adults who smoke and want to quit. 

A study considered health and financial concerns related to COVID-19 to better understand what factors might inform a person’s consideration whether to quit smoking amidst a widespread public health event such as the pande

Approximately one in five Vietnamese adults currently smoke. The low average price of cigarette packs in Vietnam (among the world’s lowest) is a factor in the nation’s high smoking rate. Graphic health warning label (HWL) requirements have also not changed since 2012.

This report provides an overview of the projected impacts of a policy that bans or restricts the use of flavors in tobacco products as well as evidence-based policy recommendations for maximizing public health benefits and minimizing unintended consequences.

Health warning labels (HWLs) can help diminish the appeal of of packaging and communicate risked from tobacco use.  In November 2018, 15 focus group discussion were conducted in Mexico City, Mexico to examine the ways in which cigarette packs appeal to adolescents and young adults and h

In a 2016 study, our team found that pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) with messages about smokers harming others were more effective than messages about smokers harming themselves.

Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) and global partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD).

IGTC partnered with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) and the Comisión Nacional Permanente de Lucha Antitabáquica (COLAT), a network of tobacco control advocacy organizations in Peru, to conduct a follow-up study of tobacco product availability and advertising at the point-of-sale (POS).

In February 2015, the Turkish Ministry of Health released a circular, proposing a ban on the use of tobacco and tobacco products within at least five meters of the entrance to public buildings. We, therefore, assessed the compliance level of outdoor areas of venues in this study.