Global Tobacco
Unless a significant portion of current smokers quit, tobacco use will cause approximately one billion deaths in this century – mostly in low and middle income countries. The use of effective tobacco control policies (including taxation, regulation, and education) is now common in high-income countries, but is not regularly implemented in low and middle-income countries, where 80% of the world’s 1.3 billion smokers live. The objective of CGHR’s Global Tobacco projects is to accelerate tobacco control in developing countries through evidence-based research of the:
- epidemiology of tobacco-related diseases and mortality;
- contribution of smoking to social inequalities in mortality;
- taxation and regulation policies for tobacco; and
- strategic monitoring and evaluation of tobacco control programs.
CGHR also provides scientific counsel to national governments regarding effective tobacco control policies.