Here are the main topics featured in March 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• Community Organizations Drive Alternatives to Tobacco Growing in Brazil
• Why is Article 17 so Poorly Implemented – and How Can Parties Overcome That?

 E-library:

• Tobacco Policy (In)coherence in Mozambique: an Examination of National and Subnational Stakeholder Perspectives | Health Policy and Planning
• Support for Cigarette Filter Waste Policies among US Adults | Tobacco Control

In the media:

• Tanzania Becomes Africa’s Second Largest Tobacco Producer | Zimnow
• Tobacco Production On the Rise in Mozambique | The Macao News
• Sexual Abuse, Exploitation Rampant in Tobacco Farms | The Citizen

Here are the main topics featured in February 2024's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• COP10 Decision Brings Environmental Concerns to Non-Producing Nations 

E-library:

• Messages about climate, pollution and social justice harms of tobacco as motivators to quit: an untapped communication opportunity? | Tobacco Control
• India's environmental burden of tobacco use and its policy implications | The Lancet
• Making of a capitalist frontier: tobacco cultivation and changing agrarian relations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh | Asian Anthropology

In the media:

• Thrust On Alternatives To Tobacco Farming | TBS News
• More Tobacco Farmers Opting For Cocoa | Monitor
• Disposable Vape Ban: Local Communities Voiced Their Concerns – And The Government Has Listened | The Conversation

Here are the main topics featured in our special COP10 newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Highlights:

• Tobacco, Environment, And The UN Plastics Treaty
• Diversification In Tobacco Growing Areas

In the media:

• Opening Address At The Tenth Session Of The Conference of the Parties (COP10) To The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control | WHO FCTC
• COP 10: Action Needed To Prevent Tobacco Industry Interference In Environmental Solutions | TC BMJ Blog
• Addressing The Environmental Toll Of Tobacco: Urgent Action Needed At COP10 | GATC
• At Brazil's Initiative, Conference Will Discuss The Impact Of Smoking On The Environment | JOTA
• Amid The Tobacco COP, The Lula Government Promises To Resume The Planting Diversification Program | GZH
• COP’s Role In Synergizing The Who Fctc Art 18 And The UN Plastics Treaty | GATC

Photo: WHO FCTC Secretariat)

Here are the main topics featured in December's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• New Fact Sheets About Articles 17 And 18
• Meet Us At COP10 for Dialogues On The Implementation Of Articles 17 And 18

 
E-library:

• Cigarette Filter Fibres As A Sink And Source Of Trace Metals In Coastal Waters | Chemosphere
• Tobacco Industry Presence And Practices In Mozambique: A ‘Chaotic’ But Worthy Market | Tobacco Control
• Hosting the Tobacco Industry Supply Chain and Political Interference | Nicotine & Tobacco Research

In the media:

• For The First Time, Brazil Includes The Green Tobacco Sickness In Its List Of Occupational Related Diseases | Diário Oficial da União
• E-Cigarettes: France Backs Bill To Ban Disposable Vapes | BBC
• Australia Begins Crackdown On Vaping, To Ban Import Of Single-Use Devices | Reuters

Here are the main topics featured in November's newsletter. Access the complete edition here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• Tobacco Industry Sponsors Study Yielding Questionable Data on Farmers
• Launch of Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

E-library:

• Environmental persistence, bioaccumulation, and hazards of chemicals in e-cigarette e-liquids: short-listing chemicals for risk assessments | Tobacco Control
• Cellulose acetate cigarette filter is hazardous to human health | Tobacco Control
• Protecting public health and the environment: towards a general ban on cellulose acetate cigarette filters in the European Union | Front. Public Health

In the media:

• Malawi Finally Ratifies Tobacco Control Convention, But Many Farmers Are Loyal to the Crop | Health Policy Watch
• Pakistan: Swapping Tobacco Growing into Crops Farming Vital to Overcome Food Insecurity, Health Risks: Experts | Urdu Point
• Designed to be a global benchmark, tobacco diversification faces obstacles in Brazil | O Joio e o Trigo

(Photo: Tobacco farmer Celírio da Silva in front of his house in Brazil. By João Ripper / CETAB)

Here are the topics featured in this month's newsletter. To access the complete edition, please click here.

Knowledge Hub News:

• A Farmer's Battle to Make Alliance One Accountable for Pesticide-Induced Disease
• Podcast: Tobacco Farming Mythbusters
• Discover our Image Bank

In the media:

• India: Policy drafted to discourage tobacco farming
• Brazil: The largest straw cigarette producer enters the list of slave labor
• Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company

Event:

• Launch of Toolkit for Article 17 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control