Learn more about the Rural Perspectives on Alternatives to Tobacco Farming and Environmental Degradation in Malawi Working Paper by reading this piece by co-author Axel Klein.
Yuchen Xue notes an oversight in the Lancet’s account of occupational hazards in China-namely, smoking in the workplace. Read more here.
Complements ongoing tobacco control efforts to accelerate quitting and switching to tobacco harm reduction products while understanding the individual smoker
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Aims to diversify tobacco-dependent economies, ensuring that smallholder farmers impacted by the declining demand for tobacco are supported to find sustainable alternative livelihoods
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Focuses on delivering change across the entire global tobacco industry and nicotine ecosystem
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Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable death
There are 7.2 million smoking-related deaths annually, killing more people than hiv/aids, malaria & tuberculosis combined.2
1. GBD 2015 Tobacco Collaborators. Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet.
2. World Health Organization. WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2017
3. American Cancer Society. Tobacco: True Cost of Smoking
4. Banks E, et al. Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence. BMC Med, 2015
5. World Health Organization. Tobacco Fact Sheet. 2017
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Quitting smoking among adults – United States, 2001–2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2011
Dr. Villoo Morawala-Patell explains her research, which includes looking at her own #Parsi community to help #smokingcessation through genomic research. View the full clip to find out why she’s perfectly comfortable sitting on the edge of her seat. http://bit.ly/2W2Ctky
In two years, the introduction of harm reduction products in #Japan has had a greater impact on smokers than over the last 30 years. Watch the video to learn about the current state of #smokingcessation and #harmreduction. http://bit.ly/2WiQkDs
Writing in @TheLancet, FSFW Data Analyst Yuchen Xue notes an oversight in the journal's account of occupational hazards in #China, namely, smoking in the workplace. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2UQRtDD
Derek Yach spoke at the @ForumAurora in #Armenia, where he noted, “I believe that in the next 10-15 years we will end up seeing lung cancer being managed like a chronic disease and no longer being a death sentence like it is today.” #CancerPreventionMonth http://bit.ly/39l7GVL
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