• Commercial Industries and Public Health: The role of the Smart Journalist A Residential Workshop for Journalists

• “Commercial Industries and Public Health: The role of the Smart Journalists” residential workshop was held on 19-20th August 2019 in the Amora Lagoon Hotel, Katunayake. Thirteen Journalists representing print and Electronic media attended the workshop. Dr. Mahesh Rajasuriya, Director, CCT introduc... [read more]

 

• Joint Letter to the UN SG Re: The role of the tobacco industry in the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development

• Framework Convention Alliance together with ASH: Action on Smoking & Health, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products - Vital Strategies, Tobacco-Free Union, Tobacco Control Research Group at University of Bath, Global Center for Good Governance in Tob... [read more]

 

• Launch of the South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco (SARC-CCT)

• ‘’Tobacco is the only legally available consumer product which kills people when used entirely as intended.’’ The tobacco industry is a global entity. Tobacco industry is known for their interference and influence of public and governments. It also includes a wide range of supporting consultancies s... [read more]

 

• Networking forum for University Undergraduates

• A series of advocacy sessions on Tobacco Industry Impact on Public Health and Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 5.3 targeting the university undergraduates in Sri Lanka was initiated on 23rd June 2019. The first session, held at the training room of the Alcohol and Drug Informat... [read more]

 

• World No Tobacco Day-2019

• World Health Organization (WHO) has declared every year 31st of May as the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The main aim of this campaign is to raise awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure. This year the theme of the WNTD is "tobacco and lung health", h... [read more]

 

• Launch of the TobaccoUnmasked(TU) 100th Post

• Tobacco Unmasked is the official information portal of the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) based on a MediaWiki platform. It contains evidence based information on the tobacco industry, with detailed profiles of tobacco companies relevant to Sri Lanka and their employees. TobaccoUnamsked website ... [read more]

 

• Launch of the Community Driven Tobacco Surveillance System (CDTSS)

• Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) developed a free mobile app named as TobaccoUnmasked_HotSpots to report activities of the tobacco industry. The inputs from this app from all over the island is fed into an online map of Sri Lanka using GIS (Geographic Information System) technology. Through this T... [read more]

 

• CCT Presence at The 49th Union Conference on Lung Health

• The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the largest assembly of activists, policy makers, researchers and community advocates on lung health. Tobacco control is one of the major fields covered by the conference. The 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health was held from 24 to 27 October 2018 ... [read more]

 

• 8th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8), Geneva, Switzerland

• The 8th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World health organization (WHO) was successfully held from 1st to 6th October 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. This is a biennial session with the participation of the parties, non-partie... [read more]

 

• Regional Meeting for the Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties of the WHO-FCTC

• Centre for Combating Tobacco was invited for the Regional Meeting for the Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the World Health Organisation-Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC)held on 20th and 21st August 2018, at New Delhi, India. The meeting was organized by the ... [read more]