Spotlight World Conference on Tobacco Control 2025: Driving Global Progress in Tobacco Control From health taxes to AI-powered marketing monitoring, Vital Strategies' work was front and center at the recent World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin. See how our tools, partnership and advocacy are helping to protect communities and save lives around the world.
Explainers Fix the Price Tag on Health The companies making us sick are making billions. Our health, our economies, and our future are paying the price. But there’s a proven solution: health taxes on harmful products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks.
Vital Stories World No Tobacco Day 2025: Vital Strategies Grantees and Partners Honored for Their Tobacco Control Work Vital Strategies partners in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Uruguay and Vietnam, many of them grantees of the Tobacco Control Grants Program, have been honored with World No Tobacco Day Awards.
Press Room New Resource Arms Criminal Legal System with Tools to Rethink and Reject Pregnancy Prosecutions Pregnancy Justice and Vital Strategies launched a toolkit to shift the criminal legal response to substance use in pregnancy from punishment to public health.
CEO Perspective Statement from Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on the release of WHO Global Tobacco Control Report With tobacco use among youth rising, we call on governments to strengthen proven measures, including health taxes and sustained anti-tobacco campaigns, to protect the next generation.
Press Room Statement from Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on the release of WHO Global Tobacco Control Report: Read our statement from Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies, on the release of WHO Global Tobacco Control Report.
Press Room New Data Modeling Tool Strengthens Growing Calls for Tobacco Taxes to Address Health Financing Crisis CoRRE–an interactive data modeling tool–builds country-by-country scenarios to demonstrate how tobacco taxes generate millions in revenue and can help countries recover millions in smoking-related costs.
Press Room Vietnam Advances Lifesaving Tax Reforms on Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugary Drinks "Health taxes on all unhealthy goods—tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed products like sugary drinks—save lives, reduce health care costs and generate revenue."
Vital Stories More Than Infrastructure: Building Inclusive Cities with Community Voices In Indonesia, the cities of Surabaya and Makassar are taking bold steps to answer this question. As part of their post-COVID recovery plans, both cities have prioritized sustainable urban mobility.
Press Room FIFA Under Pressure to Kick Big Soda Out Amid Health Backlash – Vital Strategies A powerful coalition of global health experts and advocates is calling on FIFA to end its decades-long partnership with Coca-Cola through the Kick Big Soda Out campaign.