• CCT resumes its activities in the new year

•   Centre for Combating Tobacco resumed its activities in the new year of 2021 yesterday, on the 4th of January with the participation of the full and part-time core team members, project team members and interns. Representatives from the CCT volunteer network also attended the event. CCT ... [read more]

 

• Joint Press Release: Raise Tobacco Tax and Save Health AND Economy of Sri Lanka

•   (23rd November 2020)   Tobacco prematurely kills 50% of its users and 20,000 Sri Lankans per year. It is also a major determinant of poverty at individual, household and community levels, contributing to the vicious cycles of under nutrition and lower economic productivity. The Wo... [read more]

 

• CCT completes the Cycle 1 of HelpQuit - The WHO-CCT Online Smoking Cessation Course

•   Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) is the WHO-FCTC sanctioned tobacco observatory of Sri Lanka and South Asia Region hosted by the Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo.   The CCT online Help Quit is a joint project by CCT and WHO country office of Sri Lanka. The main in... [read more]

 

• The 51 st Union Conference on Lung Health, 20 th -24 th October 2020

• The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the largest assembly of activists, policy makers, researchers and community advocates on lung health in the world. Tobacco control is one of the major fields covered by the conference. The 51 st Union World Conference on Lung Health was held from 20 t... [read more]

 

• World Mental Health Day 2020

• October 10th 2020   World Mental Health Day is commemorated on 10th October every year, with the aim of raising awareness on mental health issues and mobilizing efforts to support mental health. This year’s World Mental Health Day is even more felt than before under the stresses related t... [read more]

 

• Legal actions to be taken for the ones who promote cannabis in social media - Sri Lankan Prime Minister

• 8th October 2020 Yesterday (7th October 2020), at the parliament sessions of Sri Lanka, Member of the Parliament, Mr. Buddika Pathirana, questioned the Prime Minister Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, about his stand on the recently uprising promotion of cannabis in social media within Sri Lanka. “If a m... [read more]

 

• Important Note on Casting Your Vote! Is your chosen candidate genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of Sri Lankan citizens?

• According to Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global public health treaty adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco industry (TI) denotes tobacco manufacturers, wholesale distributors and importers of tobacco products. Article 5.3 of the FCTC recommends measure... [read more]

 

• It’s the first birthday of SARC-CCT!!!

• On15th July 2019 South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco (SARC-CCT) was ceremonially launched by the Vice-Chancellor of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Professor Chandrika N. Wijeyaratne, at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. SARC-CCT is coordinated by the Centre for Combating Tob... [read more]

 

• TobaccoUnmasked Media Wiki’s 3rd Anniversary Celebration

• Tobacco Unmasked is the official information portal of the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) based on a media wiki platform. It contains evidence based information on the tobacco industry. TU website has Sinhala and Tamil mirror wikis too. TobaccoUnmasked celebrated its 3rd year anniversary on 7th ... [read more]

 

• Webinar 2: Protecting Youth and children from Industry Manipulation in the South Asia Region

• The second webinar of the “World No Tobacco Day 2020 webinar series” organised by the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT), together with the South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco (SARC-CCT) network and the  International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union) ... [read more]