Technical publications
Strengthening tobacco control in the wake of COVID-19
Cigarette smoking: an assessment of tobacco’s global environmental footprint across its entire supply...
Cigarette production and consumption have seen dramatic growth in recent decades and although the health effects of smoking are widely recognized,...
WHO FCTC implementation review in Pacific Island countries
World Health Organization (acting as the host organization for the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control & its Protocols...
The purpose of this report is in response to a request from the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to review the relationship between...
The purpose of this report is in response to a request from the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to review the relationship between...
Development Planning and Tobacco Control: Integrating the WHO FCTC into UN and National Development Planning...
Tobacco use, driven by industry marketing and fuelled by social inequities, is killing 6 million people per year, inhibitingsocio-economic development...
Tobacco control governance in sub-saharan Africa: implementing article 5.2(a) of the World Health Organization...
This report was authored by Jeffrey Drope of the American Cancer Society and Marquette University, Raphael Lencucha of McGill University, Peter...
Tobacco plain packaging: global status update
This update on the global status of tobacco plain packaging provides: an overview of global progress on the implementation of plain packagingthe key elements...
The illicit tobacco trade is a global problem that threatens the public health gains of tobacco control and the outcomes of the WHO Framework Convention...
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: an accelerator for sustainable development
This report was authored by Roy Small and Natalia Linou of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under the overall guidance of Douglas...
Viable Alternatives to Tobacco growing: an economic model for implementing Articles 17 and 18
There are 1.1 billion tobacco consumers in the world, which is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by 2035. Consumption of tobacco products is increasing...