Case Studies Tobacco Control Case Study: Pakistan Vital Strategies and Pakistan's Ministry of Health executed a vast advocacy campaign across several years to highlight the problem with point-of-sale marketing.
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Advances in systems thinking, demography and technology mean that for the first time, counting every human life is possible, even in remote areas.
Tobacco Control Tobacco could kill a billion people this century. Vital Strategies Tobacco Control Program has worked in 41 countries to deliver evidence-based campaigns and build local capacity to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco and e-cigarettes. Our campaigns support policy goals such as smoke-free workplaces and tobacco tax increases. Recently, we also focused on encouraging quitting during COVID-19 because smoking increases the risk of a deadly infection.
Press Room “It’s Time” for Governments to End TB It is entirely unacceptable that every year 1.6 million people die from a disease that we have been able to treat since the 1940s. In developed nations, tuberculosis has nearly been eradicated, but in low- and middle-income countries, TB remains the leading infectious killer.
Vital Stories Moving toward a sustainable tobacco control program in Pakistan 2017 was a year of progress for tobacco control in Pakistan. Legal and regulatory developments have led the country closer towards the establishment of Sustainable Funding Mechanisms for nationwide tobacco control communication programs.
Press Room Media Campaign in Pakistan Uses Real Images of Tobacco’s Harms to Urge Smokers to Quit The campaign graphically shows the many harmful illnesses caused by tobacco use, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and oral cancers, and calls on smokers to quit.
Press Room Tar in cigarettes causes disease and premature death among Pakistan’s people A powerful national mass media campaign to show the deadly harm of tobacco - and encourage smokers to quit - has launched in Pakistan.
Campaigns Pakistan – Tobacco Control – Sponge “Sponge” graphically depicts how cigarettes smoke causes preventable disease and premature death.
Campaigns Pakistan 2015 – Tobacco is Hollowing You Out This PSA is designed to turn tobacco users’ thoughts about quitting into active quit attempts by showing the real health harms of tobacco use. “Tobacco…
Vital Stories Countdown to Large Graphic Warnings on Tobacco in Pakistan Pakistan has a high number of smokers of both manufactured cigarettes and hand-rolled bidis - 27.9% of men and 5.4% of women - and a growing smokeless tobacco trend.