CCT News

  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]