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A ‘Smoke-free Vietnam’ campaign has resulted in nearly 3,000 people registering on vn0khoithuoc.com to pledge their support for the implementation of the national smokefree law, which came into effect on May 1st, 2013. Hundreds of youth attended Youth Union events in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City to launch the campaign, which featured television spots, SMS texts and social media. A Facebook page, facebook.com/Vn0khoithuoc, rapidly resulted in an engaged community of more than 500 supporters.

4th Edition of The Tobacco Atlas Predicts Middle-Eastern Women and Children Face Increasing Risk for Tobacco-related Deaths and Disease.

Political will, public support and a comprehensive package of tobacco control policies can bring major reductions in smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.

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Immediate need to combat Big Tobacco’s use of social media channels to circumvent marketing bans and recruit young smokers.

Government of the Republic of Ireland congratulated on its plans to introduce plain standardised packaging for cigarettes.

More than 2,000 people have already registered to pledge their support for the implementation of the new smokefree law.

Recent Survey Finds Most Senegalese Don’t Smoke And Think Tobacco Is Harmful.

A national mass media campaign was launched today in Hanoi to support the implementation of Viet Nam’s new smokefree law, which came into effect on May 1st, 2013.

Rescue Social Change Group's thoughtful founder, Jeff Jordan, led a keynote session that illustrated the difference between two connected, but separate strategies; commercial and social branding. His theory: When legislative and financial interventions have stagnated, and declines in smoking rates among specific populations (such as 20 to 25 year olds) fail to decrease in places like California, he calls in a creation called Commune.