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global researchers mobilize to improve quitting tools as world no tobacco day focuses on smokers’ lung health

NEW HEALTH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY GRANTS WILL ALLOW 100+ RESEARCHERS TO EXPLORE SMOKING CESSATION AND HARM-REDUCTION INNOVATION NEW YORK, May 29, 2019 – More than 30 years after World No Tobacco Day was launched to raise awareness of the devasting health effects of tobacco use, there are still more than a billion smokers in the world. […]

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msu awarded $7.8 million grant to promote agricultural transformation in malawi

CONTACT: Eileen Gianiodis, gianiod1@msu.edu, 517-884-7087 OR Thom Jayne, jayne@msu.edu, 517-432-9802 MSU Awarded $7.8 Million Grant to Promote Agricultural Transformation in Malawi The Agricultural Transformation Initiative has awarded MSU a $7.8 million grant toward bettering the lives of smallholder farmers and the country’s agricultural sector. EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University (MSU) researchers received a $7.8 million […]

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Leading Global Research Firms Selected to Create the First-Ever Smoke-Free Index

For Immediate Release March 18, 2019 (New York, New York) – The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World today announced consultancy agreements with global market research company Euromonitor International and leading consulting firm and think tank SustainAbility for the creation of the Smoke-Free Index®, which will be published in June 2020. The Smoke-Free Index® will annually evaluate […]

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industry disruption in technology—finance sectors may hold key to averting china’s looming crisis in smoking-related deaths

عربى/Arabic Translation 通话翻译/Simplified Chinese Translation 粵語翻譯/Traditional Chinese Translation Français/French Translation Ελληνικά/Greek Translation עִברִית/Hebrew Translation हिंदी/Hindi Translation 日本語/Japanese Translation Português/Portuguese Translation Pусский/Russian Translation Hong Kong, China (11 October, 2018) – Hong Kong and Mainland China industries are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in business practices. Those shifts may provide important lessons for reducing one of the region’s […]

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foundation for a smoke-free world invites organizations to submit expressions of interest to operate a center for agricultural transformation in malawi — $10 million for a five-year contract

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s Agricultural Transformation Initiative (ATI) is seeking qualified organizations to submit Expressions of Interest to operate and manage a new Center for Agricultural Transformation in Malawi. The Center will embrace open innovation and collaboration in agricultural science and technology to achieve transformational impacts for Malawian smallholder tobacco farmers. “We are thrilled to […]

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