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. Rajesh N. Sharan (@rnsharan) notes that lung and oral cancer account “for almost over 52% of cancer incidence in India.” Learn about socio-cultural aspects of the #StateOfSmoking in India here: http://bit.ly/2Tzc9NP
Researchers, doctors, and community leaders are coming together at @CoeharUnict in Catania, #Italy to drive crucial #research on smoking reduction and cessation. Hear from the trailblazers: http://bit.ly/35BhlWr
Romita Shah discusses key findings from this year’s #ATISummit2019 in #Malawi. As she puts it, “the summit suggested that science, technology, and innovation will play a critical role in helping the agricultural sector in Malawi overcome its challenges.” http://bit.ly/35Zvblq
#DYK in 2016, Brazil, India, and China produced almost 64% of the world’s tobacco (about 10%, 11%, and 42%, respectively). Explore our report on Global Trends in Tobacco Production and Trade for more insightful takeaways. http://bit.ly/2NytTpP
https://www.wsj.com/articles/researchers-say-fda-has-fallen-down-on-e-cigarette-testing-11574850602?emailToken=0a130bb960dec7bc16b0390b4911aa931OgjP5SE8gY6vCi4Ccm9/yXhoXpJTPOq8W2NpeI4S4YCiKxIyaZ9WtjkXqJWtYGw9x9adoWjGwFaNQ9JahwAstjhRIFoo9oHaBGv9yfNK1uryXEzmwiASGWil6OaQ8PE&reflink=article_email_share @SmokeFreeFdn is funding gaps in science mentioned here. We fund research on better cessation, safe harm reduction and biomarkers to predict benefits. Tested in large and diverse user groups. @WSJ
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