The recently concluded tenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), held in Panama from 5-10 February 2024, brought together a diverse range of stakeholders to address the tobacco epidemic. The COP attracted close to 180 Parties to the FCTC and numerous civil society organizations, inter-governmental bodies, academics, and media representatives from around the world.

In this newsletter we report on our recent publications; research and media pieces, and on the teaching side, we report on the Tobacco Taxation 101 course that was completed by our first cohort of students in mid-June 2024. Looking forward, we launched two exciting new projects, as well as a new newsletter feature: an overview of economics of tobacco control research&n