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• This year’s World No Tobacco Day theme was “Grow food, not tobacco”. The campaign raises awareness about alternative crop production for tobacco farmers and encourage them to grow sustainable, nutritious crops. It also exposes the tobacco industry’s efforts to interfere with…

Monthly ‘round-up’ news item – February 2023

An overview of the new Editorial plan for Public Health Action

• On 15thDecember 2021, Timor-Leste determined that it would increase tax on tobacco products, effective January 2022. The excise tax will increasefrom 21% (USD 19/kg) to 50% (USD 50/kg), and there will be import and sales taxes of 2.5% each. Increases will be implemented on…

Hear from tobacco control implementation experts who share their experiences of achieving high compliance with tobacco control laws, through real-world case studies.

Gan Quan, The Union's Director of Tobacco Control, looks back at COP9 for Health Policy Watch.

• British American Tobacco (BAT) and its American unit, R.J. Reynolds, are undoubtedly having a very good week, but the same cannot be said of the public health sector, never mind the tobacco control community. While the former are reveling in thejust announcedU.S. Food and…

The IJTLD is changing for a bold new future. Read about how we are adapting the Journal in an Editorial for the October issue. The preprint is free to read.

• It's not too late toregister for the Union World Conferencethat will be held virtually between 19-22 October 2021. Attractive rates are available for all our delegates. Please check our website for regular updates.

  We are excited to share the programme schedule for the…

• Please contact our team members if you have any further questions: General (abstract and session) submissions and conference programme –scientific@theunion.org TBScience – tbscience@theunion.org Community Connect - communityconnect@theunion.org Registration and sponsored…

• With a diverse group that included Members of Parliament, mayors, academics, civil society members, religious leaders, and representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and other key stakeholders, The Union launched its…

Inspire, engage and give a voice to the community (Submissions are closed; View Community Connect Schedule here)

• While all six of the World Health Organization’s cost-effective, high-impact MPOWER measures are critical to ending the global tobacco burden, the “O” in this acronym—“Offer help to quit tobacco”—has, to date, been under implemented. When the WHO issued its lastReport on The…

• Earlier this week, Mr. Navid Ahmed Shaikh, Commissioner Karachi Division, directed his seven deputy commissioners to create district implementation and monitoring committees (DIMCs) and tobacco control cells (TCCs) in each of their respective districts. DIMCs and tobacco…

• In its recently released (16 April) “Final Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes,” the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental, and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) highlights concerns about e-cigarettes and finds insufficient, or “weak,” evidence that they help…

• Indonesia is unduly burdened by tobacco: it has a has a 63% male smoking prevalence, and smoking causes approximately 235,000 deaths each year. There is also significant evidence that smokers are at greater risk of more advanced COVID-19. The infectious disease—it had claimed…

• India’s Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003 (COTPA) bars tobacco company corporate social responsibility (CSR) as does Article 13 of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which notes that such activities are a form of…

The 52nd Union World Conference, which will be held virtually this year from October 19-22, is now accepting Satellite sessions submissions to the conference programme till June 30, 2021.

Make sure you carefully read the submission…

Hear from tobacco control implementation experts who share their experiences of achieving high compliance with tobacco control laws, through real-world case studies.

Sessions and abstracts must be submitted under one of the official tracks for the conference

The 5th APCAT Asia Pacific Summit of Mayors brought leaders together to share their insights and exchange experiences of the COVID-19 crisis, particularly in relation to tobacco control and NCD prevention.

They will address the opening ceremony of the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, taking place virtually 20-24 October 2020. TB survivors Tamaryn Green and Divya Sojan will also speak of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those…

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director, Shannon Hader, and Katherine Maher, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired of Jordan will speak at the conference.