• 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]

 

• Who traps children in substance? What can we as teachers do about it?: Webinar for School Teachers, Dhamma schools, Technical colleges and tuition classes

• A scientific online discussion on “Who traps children in substance? What can we, as teachers do about it?” was held successfully on 10th October 2021 starting from 7 pm onwards. Around 200 School teachers, teachers of Dhamma schools, higher education institutes, technical colleges and tuition classe... [read more]

 

• Press Release: Minister of Finance’s Statement on Duties of the Excise Department

• 11th September 2021 Excise Department of Sri Lanka was established under the Excise Ordinance No.08 of 1912 with the key functions of collecting excise revenue, uncovering excise crimes, uncovering tobacco crimes, uncovering narcotic crimes and implementation of policies. It is one of the main re... [read more]

 

• TobaccoUnmasked Celebrates its 4th Anniversary

• TobaccoUnmasked (TU); the official information portal of the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) based on a media wiki platform, celebrates its 4th anniversary today. It contains evidence based information on the tobacco industry activities and interferences. TU was ceremonially launched by Professor... [read more]

 

• Tobacco industry, The Corona epidemic and Commit to quit

• World No Tobacco Day 2021 Tobacco industry, The Corona epidemic and Commit to quit To commemorate World No Tobacco Day on May 31, Centre for Combatting Tobacco (CCT) in partnership with Young Professionals’ Alliance for Health (YouPAH) organisd a panel discussion on zoom technology on 30th May 202... [read more]

 

• 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]