• 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]

 

• 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]

 

• Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) Proposes a New Tobacco Taxation Policy

•   The Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) conducted a tobacco control research study ‘‘Elasticity Estimates for Cigarettes in Sri Lanka’ – the findings inform  that although cigarette prices have gone up over time, cigarettes are still affordable for smokers as tax increases h... [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]

 

• 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]