COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation.

COVID-19 public health info from US CDC  |  COVID-19 research info from the US NIH  |  COVID-19 resources for global health researchers

---

Tobacco control news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Global efforts to curb tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure have increased sharply in the past decade, but so has the problem - now one person dies every six seconds because of tobacco, according to WHO data. Alarmingly, new usage patterns are emerging, with women, young people and developing country populations taking up tobacco at increasing rates, not only for cigarettes, but also for e-cigarettes and hookahs, or waterpipes.

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where tobacco use is rising fastest, include those least equipped to tackle the associated health burdens from cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and other disease and disability. Many LMICs lack epidemiological data on their population's tobacco use and resulting costs in terms of health care and lost productivity. Consequently, they are not planning preventive action.

Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program supports collaborative research and capacity building projects that address the burden of tobacco use in LMICs.

At NIH the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) lead efforts to support research on tobacco use, addiction and associated health risks.

Top News

• WHO launches new report on the global tobacco epidemic
  WHO news, July 26, 2019
• Report: WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2019
  WHO, July 2019
• Grantee news: New NIH grant to focus on e-cigarette use and policies in Latin America
  University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health news, August 23, 2018
• Reducing tobacco use in teens help reduce noncommunicable disease burden
  Mar / Apr 2018 Global Health Matters
• Grantee news: Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world
  St. Michael's Hospital, April 12, 2018
• Fogarty awards $10.7M to build tobacco control and prevention research capacity in developing countries
  Fogarty news, September 20, 2017
• Grantee news: Loma Linda University researchers awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to study tobacco control in Asia
  Loma Linda University Health news, September 19, 2017
• Tobacco control can save billions of dollars and millions of lives
  WHO news release, January 10, 2017
• Report: The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control (Monograph 21)
  from the WHO and the National Cancer Institute at NIH, released January 10, 2017
• The global economic burden of tobacco: An interview with Dr. Mark Parascandola
  Cancer Currents blog, January 18, 2017
• Addressing NCDs through research and capacity building in LMICs: lessons learned from tobacco control
  Global Health Action, August 19, 2016
• New NIH-funded study shows possible link between e-cigarettes and initiation of tobacco use
  NIDA news, August 18, 2015
• NIDA, Fogarty work to reduce smoking in Argentina
  Jul / Aug 2015 Global Health Matters

Related Fogarty News and Information

• Hookah smoking poses health risks, NIH studies show
  Mar / Apr 2014 Global Health Matters
• Hookah research resources
  Mar / Apr 2014 Global Health Matter
• Fogarty considers evolving global tobacco landscape
  Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
• Report on the review of Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program, released November 2013
• Fogarty review documents productivity of NIDA-supported tobacco research
  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) news, December 2013
• We must do more to discourage global tobacco use
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Nov / Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
• Smoking research influenced policy in Hungary
  Mar / Apr 2013 Global Health Matters
• Anti-smoking programs target Indian youth
  Mar / Apr 2011 Global Health Matters
• Cell phones help Turkish smokers quit
  Nov / Dec 2010 Global Health Matters
• US-Syrian research partnership combats smoking
  Jan / Feb 2010 Global Health Matters
• Related Fogarty grantee publication in PubMed:
  Waterpipe tobacco and cigarette smoking: direct comparison of toxicant exposure
  December 2009, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

NIH News and Resources

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• NCI Center for Global Health
• NCI tobacco research information
• NCI report highlights epidemic of tobacco and global health inequalities

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• NIDA International Program
• NIDA tobacco and nicotine research information
• NIDA tobacco addiction research report 2012

• MedlinePlus information on risks of tobacco

Other US Government Resources

• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Tobacco Control
• Office of the U.S. Surgeon General Tobacco Reports and Publications
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products

Other Online Resources

• African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) at the U.S. National Academies:
• Preventing a Tobacco Epidemic in Africa [English] [PDF], via the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
  Prévention d'une épidémie de tabagisme en Afrique [French] [PDF] via the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) at the U.S. National Academies
  A report from a committee convened by the Network of African Science Academies to outline strategies to combat increasing tobacco use in Africa.
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME):
• Tobacco Viz visualization tool shows tobacco data by country
• Despite declines in smoking rates, number of smokers and cigarettes rises
  IHME news, January 7, 2014
• JAMA Smoking Prevalence and Cigarette Consumption in 187 Countries, 1980-2012
  January 8, 2014
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Tobacco
• Backgrounder on WHO report on regulation of e-cigarettes and similar products
  WHO news, August 26, 2014

To view Adobe PDF files, download current, free accessible plug-ins from Adobe's website.