World No Tobacco Day 2018 will focus on the impact tobacco has on the cardiovascular health of people worldwide. 

For the first time, the World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) is including a stream focused on social justice and tobacco, at its 2018 meeting.

After a five-year wait, Brazilian civil society is cheering a Supreme Court decision that a regulatory agency has the power to ban additives and flavours in tobacco products.

Tobacco is bad for health, and a retardant for development, with implications across the SDGs. So why has the tobacco industry been allowed to partner with the Global Goals campaigns under the guise of social responsibility?

This report analyses the potential policy benefits of taxing sugar content; documents how content-based taxes have been used to discourage consumption of sugar, alcohol, and tobacco; and examines the legal and practical challenges of implementing such taxes.

Topics included: Alcohol & Cancer Risk; Physical Activity – the Global Movement; SMART commitments to address NCDs, overweight & obesity; Tobacco Control and COP7.

This publication describes the purposes of implementing plain packaging as part of a comprehensive approach to tobacco control, the evidence base justifying the measure and developments at the country level, before offering recommendations to countries considering implementing plain packaging.

The impact of the 2009/2010 enhancement of cigarette health warning labels in Uruguay: longitudinal findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Uruguay Survey.