• TUHS App Celebrates its 3rd Anniversary

• Tobacco Unmasked HotSpots App created by the Centre for Combatting Tobacco, celebrates its 3rd anniversary today. TUHS is a GIS based online free mobile application to monitor geographical location of tobacco industry activities and interference in public health. It also enables the regis... [read more]

 

• Launch of the Research Report "A Scientific investigation of Tobacco and Alcohol Portrayal in Sri Lankan Media and its Public Health Implications"

•     A research report on portrayal of tobacco and alcohol in media and its public health implications was launched by the Centre for Combatting Tobacco (CCT) in an advocacy event and a press briefing held on the 30th of March 2021 at the Cinnamon Grand hotel. The Vice Chancellor ... [read more]

 

• SARC-CCT Online Fellowship Programme 2021 Initiated

• The CCT (Centre for Combating Tobacco)  and SARC-CCT (South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco) launched the second cycle of Online Fellowship Programme yesterday, 18th January 2021. This project is powered by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Uni... [read more]

 

• 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]

 

• Promoting Tobacco Industry Monitoring Among the parties to the WHO FCTC

•   A webinar on ‘Promoting Tobacco Industry Monitoring Among the parties to the WHO FCTC’, organized by the WHO FCTC and GGTC (Global Centre for Good Governance) was held on 15th December 16, 2020 with the participation of a number of representatives from all around the world. The objecti... [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]

 

• 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]