Resources

This factsheet discusses how effective health warnings—those with large, shocking pictures and strong, clear language—on tobacco packs encourage smokers to quit and discourage non-smokers from starting.

Mass media campaigns are an essential part of a comprehensive tobacco control programme, as they reduce tobacco consumption and are cost-effective compared to other healthcare interventions. This factsheet focuses on stop smoking campaigns.

This factsheet focuses on tobacco dependency as a recognised medical condition; providing assistance for smoking cessation and tobacco dependency treatment are key tobacco control measures. 

This factsheet covers the connection between smoking and tuberculosis. Active smoking is significantly associated with TB disease and deaths, while exposure to second-hand smoke is significantly associated with TB disease, and with TB infection among children and young people.

A key tobacco control measure, tobacco vendor licensing can limit tobacco retailer density around schools, parks, and hospitals

This factsheet provides information on what is presently known about smoking and COVID-19 during various inflection points.

Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are very different, but both are considered “novel products”. Understanding these products and the differences between them is critical to developing tobacco control policy and countering tobacco industry messaging.

Vital Strategies Brazil launched the Portuguese version of the book "Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity—Research and Public Policy," originally published by Oxford University Press. Translated by Vital Strategies and published by Dialética, the book is the world's leading reference in the field of alcohol policy.

This document describes the experience of building the Mental Health Index (MHI) in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil and tools to develop intersectoral policies on mental health, with a focus on children and adolescents.