Smoking

View of cigarette butts on an ashtray with an image of a sugar skull, in Mexico City.

Using Cultural Appropriation to Sell More Cigarettes

A cigarette lying on the grass.

Cigarette Butts: Toxic Threat and Tobacco Control Opportunity

A notice is posted about a rise in duty for alcoholic beverages, between two rows of champagne bottles on store shelves, August 4, 2023 at a Sainsbury's Market in London, England. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty

Alcohol Taxes Are a Public Health Win-Win

Children hold signs and giant paper cigarettes emblazoned with "No Smoking" to raise awareness of the harms caused by tobacco products on World No Tobacco Day. Mumbai, India, May 31, 2022.

NCDs Are Coming for Youth. Are They Up for the Fight?

A person walks by a sign that reads "One small ask, please wear a mask." New York City, May 27, 2020. Image: Rob Kim/Getty

We Need to Focus on the Science of Human Behavior to End COVID Pandemic

Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creating a sand sculpture for World No Tobacco Day at Puri beach. On the last day of May each year, the WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.

Stemming Tobacco Use Through Public Awareness

Students hold up no smoking signs to support World No Tobacco Day at a primary school in northern China's Hebei province, on May 30, 2016. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Wanted: A Watchdog to STOP Big Tobacco in Its Tracks

A young woman protests tobacco with face paint during a campaign to prevent cigarette smoking in India.

Women: Stand Up to Big Tobacco

Urmila Devi Poddar stands beside her husband Ladayan Poddar, who accidentally touched a live wire and suffered burns so severe that his right arm had to be amputated.

Images of Blazing Injustice: Nepal's Burn Survivors

Scott Gottlieb, MD, Commissioner of Food and Drugs

FDA Commissioner Promotes Nicotine-Reduction Plan

A 15-year-old child laborer, smokes a bidi (leaf-rolled tobacco cigar) while working in a brick factory at Ghanashyampur village in Murshidabad, 350 km north of Kolkata, India.

Powering Up to Fight Tobacco