March 8th is International Women’s Day. Today we celebrate the strength and diversity of women and reaffirm our commitment to achieving gender equality and ensuring gender equity in all of our programs and research. The Foundation strives to secure women’s involvement in the leadership of the organization, in the leadership of institutions submitting proposals, in […]

Read the full NY Times article Introduction The detrimental health and economic impacts of tobacco smoking are universally acknowledged by governments and international health organizations. Substantial progress in limiting tobacco use, mostly concentrated in developed countries, has coincided with a decline in smoking rates. In time, this trend will lead to a global decline in […]

Agricultural Transformation Summit to address challenges facing smallholder tobacco farmers as a result of reduced global demand for tobacco Lilongwe, Malawi (December 4, 2018) – The Agricultural Transformation Initiative (ATI) is co-hosting the first annual Agricultural Transformation Summit with Palladium this week as a part of its commitment to support the diversification efforts of tobacco-dependent […]

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (the Foundation) shares the concerns of the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) about the rising rates of vaping among American youth. We are encouraged by the proposed actions of the FDA in their recent statement to prevent use of harmful tobacco and nicotine products by youth, while allowing adult smokers […]

عربى/Arabic Translation 通话翻译/Simplified Chinese Translation Français/French Translation Deutsch/German Translation Ελληνικά/Greek Translation עִברִית/Hebrew Translation हिंदी/Hindi Translation 日本語/Japanese Translation Português/Portuguese Translation Pусский/Russian Translation Español/Spanish Translation November 1, 2018 (New York, New York) – Smoking tobacco is a major cause of preventable death and disability. A billion lives are at risk: a billion people who use tobacco–mostly smokers—will die because […]