Virtual technical training on tobacco control: Accelerating the MPOWER package implementation during COVID-19 in the Americas

The pending agenda and the future of tobacco control

List of Resources

Webinar / Session 1: Tactics of the tobacco industry on social media in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 1. WHO study group on tobacco product regulation: Report on the scientific basis of tobacco product regulation: eighth report of a WHO study group https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240022720
• 2. Decisions at the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP):

  a. DECISION FCTC/COP6(9). Electronic nicotine delivery systems and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems. https://apps.who.int/gb/fctc/PDF/cop6/FCTC_COP6(9)-en.pdf

  b. DECISION FCTC/COP7(9). Electronic nicotine delivery systems and electronic non nicotine delivery systems. https://www.who.int/fctc/cop/cop7/FCTC_COP7_9_EN.pdf?ua=1

  c. DECISION FCTC/COP 8(22). Novel and emerging tobacco products https://www.who.int/fctc/cop/sessions/cop8/FCTC__COP8(22).pdf

• 3. Electronic nicotine delivery systems, Report by WHO. FCTC/COP6/10 Rev.1. 1 https://apps.who.int/gb/fctc/PDF/cop6/FCTC_COP6_10Rev1-en.pdf
• 4. E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A report of the Surgeon General https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/2016_SGR_Full_Report_non-508.pdf
• 5. Desenmascarando a la industria tabacalera en América Latina. Cómo intensifica sus estrategias de comercialización en tiempos de la COVID-19. Reporte regional de seis países (Spanish only) https://bit.ly/3yjgqb1
• 6. A lifetime of damage. How Big Tobacco’s predatory marketing harms the health of women and girls https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/content/press_office/2021/womens-report.pdf
• 7. ¿Cuál es el problema con el sesgo en la información sobre vapeo en redes sociales? (Spanish only) https://www.insp.mx/evaluacion-y-encuestas/notas-informativas
• 8. ¿La exposición a la publicidad en redes sociales influye en el inicio del vapeo? (Spanish only) https://www.insp.mx/evaluacion-y-encuestas/notas-informativas
• 9. Proceso nº: 0204818-42.2019.8.19.0001 – Ministério Público vs. Rock World S.A., Souza Cruz Ltda y Vega Fina Tabacaria Eireli (Portuguese only) https://bit.ly/3sKzBt8
• 10. Tobacco Industry Interference in Brazil: the Necessity of Settling Accounts https://rbc.inca.gov.br/revista/index.php/revista/article/view/878
• 11. Jamaica - Christopher Tufton | Clear the smokescreen – big tobacco ignoring evidence https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20210801/christopher-tufton-clear-smokescreen-big-tobacco-ignoring-evidence