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Latest IGTC News
Earlier News
9/25/23: Study Finds Tobacco Sales and Advertising Near Filipino Schools
8/16/23: 2023 Summer Publishing and Media Update
8/16/23: COVID Concerns May Influence Quit Attempts
8/16/23: Kennedy Presents at Virtual Seminar
5/15/23: IGTC Spring Publishing Update
3/31/23: Examining Country-Level Regulation of Nicotine Pouches
3/7/23: Quit Behavior Study in Vietnam
3/6/23: IGTC Staff Present Work at SRNT Annual Meeting
2/15/23: Faculty Members Present Research
1/9/23: A Common Language: Proposing Terminology for E-Cigarettes and The People Who Use Them
Innovations in Tobacco Control Lectures
Watch videos from our lecture series where we welcome key researchers and experts to share ideas, present their work, and spark discussion.
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A Common Language
Accuracy and consistency are crucial to tobacco control work and its impact. It is in this spirit that IGTC offers (and has adopted) the following recommendations for intentional communications when discussing certain nicotine and tobacco products—along with the people who may use nicotine and tobacco products.
IGTC Director Joanna Cohen co-authored an editorial in Tobacco Control and shared the background of this effort in a video. We also have created a guide to help those interested in using these guidelines in their work.
Foundation Not Independent from Tobacco Company Sponsor
After Philip Morris International funded the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World in 2017, leaders of universities and non-profit organizations pledged to not accept funding from the foundation.
Read the letters which accompanied these pledges along with an analysis of the foundation’s lack of independence from PMI.