The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a key international research and resource center for tobacco control. Currently the Institute has ongoing research projects in more than 40 countries around the world. These include: assessing cotinine levels in smokers to determine what people smoke, how they smoke, and how much nicotine they have in their bodies studying secondhand smoke exposure in public places in Latin American and China establishing Centers of Excellence to build tobacco control capacity in China, Mexico and Brazil assessing exposure of women and children to secondhand smoke in 30 countries conducting intervention research to create smoke-free hospitals, schools and homes in China
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