Policy Briefs
Policy Brief Countering The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) How the Health Community Has Responded to the FSFW and What More Can Be Done In[…]
Ukraine: a significant decline in tobacco use among children over the past decade
New smoking prevalence statistics from the latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in Ukraine were released on 15 November 2018, the International No Smoking Day. The new data were presented by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the WHO Country Office in Ukraine and the NGO Advocacy Center "Life".
Resources from the Fourth Webinar
About the Speakers Education, training, public awareness and communication on SLT products Prof. Saman Warnakulasuriya, OBE, BDS, FDSRCS, Dip Oral Med, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor of[…]
Knowledge Hub materials
Articles utilizing WHO FCTC imp
Uruguay: on the way towards the world’s most comprehensive tobacco branding restrictions
On 6 August 2018, the President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez issued an executive decree requiring tobacco product plain packaging and single presentation. As a global leader in tobacco control, Uruguay becomes the first country in Latin America to implement this measure, proven to discourage people, and more particularly children and young people, from taking up tobacco use.
Supporting LMICs in tobacco surveillance
Webinar recordings and presentations Webinar series 2018: Supporting Low and Middle Income Countries in the Establishment of Tobacco Surveillance Systems in Line With the Article 20
Tobacco endgame strategies
WHO FCTC Secretariat’s Knowledge Hub on Tobacco Surveillance webinar series 2018 Supporting Low and Middle Income Countries in the Establishment of Tobacco Surveillance Systems in Line[…]
Timor-Leste: pictorial warnings required on tobacco packages and progress is made towards plain packaging
Since 6 September 2018, all tobacco products sold in Timor-Leste are required to display one of the six official combined text and pictorial health warnings covering 85% of the front and 100% of the back of the packaging.
Timor-Leste has also made substantial though not complete progress towards plain packaging. Here are packaging restrictions taking effect 6 September 2018: