The June-July period was was a busy month for our Knowledge Hub with Dr. Hana Ross attending five international events over this period. You can read […]

  By Zunda Chisa The economics of tobacco control is not a very widely known, let alone understood, field on the African continent. The average public […]

At the 2017 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, the WBG, in collaboration with WHO organized a high-level event to […]

By Corne van Walbeek Consider the world thirty years ago. Cigarette smoking was regarded as normal, with people smoking on public transport, in shops, in offices, […]

The tobacco industry frequently claims that an increase in tobacco taxes will lead to a fall in consumption of tobacco products (or at least a fall […]

Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which seeks to highlight the health and additional risks […]

This month nine US politicians wrote to the US Department of Justice demanding that it investigate the London-listed British American Tobacco (BAT) following claims that the […]

Tobacco Control Strengthens Economies and Saves Lives – A new report by the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization finds that tobacco control measures are […]

Taxing tobacco can help raise much needed revenue and save lives, but it needs to be done well. This “How-to” note provides guidance on the basics […]

The basics In 2012, a state proposition to raise the California tobacco tax rate failed by one-half of 1 percent of the vote. Now, health advocates […]