• CCT Presence at the 136th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2023

• The 136th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2023 of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) was conducted from 25th July to 28th July 2023 at Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), Colombo, Sri Lanka. The theme of the year was “Towards Human Health Care: Excellence, E... [read more]

 

• World No Tobacco Day 2023

• World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 31st of May as the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). This year the theme of the WNTD is “We need food, not tobacco”. The global campaign focuses on to raise awareness about alternative crop production and marketing opportunities for tobacco farmers and encoura... [read more]

 

• A discussion with medical professionals on “Understanding the dynamics of cannabis use, cultivation, legalisation, and popularization”

• A discussion with medical professionals titled "Understanding the dynamics of cannabis use, cultivation, legalisation, and popularization” was successfully held on 25th April 2023 at Auditorium of the Sri Lanka Medical Association. The discussion was organised by the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CC... [read more]

 

• CCT Presence at the National Symposium on Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention (NSTAP - 2022)

• Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) team made two oral presentations highlighting their tobacco industry monitoring activities in the National Symposium on Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention (NSTAP) held on 2nd December 2022 at The Waters Edge Hotel, Battaramulla. It was organised by the National Authori... [read more]

 

• Webinar on ‘Smokeless Tobacco: Determinants and Challenges in Southeast Asia’

• The eighth webinar of the Webinar Series organised by the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru, India together with India Alliance will be held on 17th November 2022 from 03:00-04:30 pm IST. The theme of the webinar is ‘Smokeless Tobacco: Determinants and Challenges in Southeast Asia’ and it will f... [read more]

 

• Completion of South Asia Public Health Fellowship 2022

• Institute of Public Health Bengaluru, India offered the South Asia Public Health fellowship to investigate the activities of British American Tobacco (BAT) affiliated with Four countries in South Asia , namely India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Following a rigorous selection procedure, seven fe... [read more]

 

• A New Initiative to Celebrate ‘TobaccoUnmasked’ Birthday

• TobaccoUnmasked (TU); the official information portal of the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) based on a media wiki platform, celebrated its 5th anniversary on 7th July. TobaccoUnmasked contains peer-reviewed and evidence based information on the tobacco industry activities and interferences in Sr... [read more]

 

• A New Project to Commemorate the World No Tobacco Day

• World Health Organization (WHO) has declared every year 31st of May as the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) is the tobacco observatory established in Sri Lanka under the Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) with a mandate to monitor the... [read more]

 

• Advocacy Meeting for Media Expertise, Film Directors and other Stakeholders

• Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) was invited by the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) to a discussion with the entertainment industry representatives titled Advocacy Meeting for Media Expertise, Film Directors and other Stakeholders. It was held on 16th March 2022, at the Auditorium... [read more]

 

• Completing Two Years of Globally Reported Tobacco Industry Interference Monitoring during COVID-19 Pandemic

• COVID-19 virus was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei province in China on 31 December 2019. World Health Organization (WHO) formally declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. WHO further declared that smokers are more likely to develop severe diseases with COVID-19, compared to non-smokers. Since then... [read more]