AI has emerged as a powerful tool in tobacco control efforts — especially in low- and middle-income countries, where 80 per cent of the 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide reside. In Indonesia, the ...

More than 6.1 billion people—roughly three-quarters of the global population—are now protected by at least one tobacco ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, June 24, released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to ...

Objectives Female smoking is predicted to double between 2005 and 2025. There have been numerous calls for action on women's tobacco use over the past two decades. In the present work, evidence about ...

Objective To quantify changes in tobacco tax rates and cigarette affordability after countries ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) using with the WHO MPOWER standards.

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WHO FCTC underscores the importance of the role played by doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, optometrists, and so on, in cessation and prevention of tobacco use by providing brief counselling or ...

Local news SA moves to strengthen tobacco control 'Every life lost through tobacco is preventable. We don’t need it in our bodies. Nicotine doesn’t add any value,' says the deputy health minister.

Objective The Standardized Tobacco Assessment for Retail Settings (STARS) was designed to characterise the availability, placement, promotion and price of tobacco products, with items chosen for ...

New report highlights the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, regional conflicts, and economic instability as key factors slowing down progress in implementing the WHO ...

NATIONAL NEWS - Through the proposed Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, South Africa is actively working to combat tobacco use, including e-cigarettes and hookahs which are ...

FILE – Containers of Zyn, a Phillip Morris smokeless nicotine pouch, are displayed for sale among other nicotine and tobacco products at a newsstand Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in New York. The product has ...