Institute for Global Tobacco Control

Free online Global Tobacco Control course

Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts is a free online course breaking down the fundamentals of tobacco control, including its history, surveillance, and impacts. This course will help individuals build, monitor, and assess interventions on any scale using case studies and examples from around the world. Start the Course

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“Straw cigarette branding: misleading descriptors and a new Marlboro man” from Graziele Grilo found an increase in availability of unique straw cigarette packs, strong branding and use of misleading descriptors on the packs in Brazil. Read the Paper

Learn more about the Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS) in this new video featuring Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior & Society. Watch the Video

The publication “Beyond gutka: Evidence of illegal smokeless tobacco in rural and semi-urban areas in India” shows how laws preventing the sale of certain products as well as price limits have not deterred some Indian tobacco companies. Read Now

The Institute for Global Tobacco Control's (IGTC) mission is to prevent death and disease from tobacco products by generating evidence to support effective tobacco control interventions.

Operating within the three-pillar framework of (1) knowledge generation, synthesis and translation, (2) evaluation and surveillance, and (3) capacity building, IGTC's goal is to reduce tobacco use globally.

IGTC's work supports tobacco control action in countries around the world, and the institute has received recognition for its work and achievements by being designated as a partner in a number of public health initiatives since its inception in 1998, including being a collaborating center of the World Health Organization since 2004. As a key player in the tobacco control arena, IGTC has trained more than 2,000 professionals through capacity building programs and produced more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals.