This blog is part of our series of conversations on all things podcast to celebrate the launch of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco. This time we are speaking with Jorge Alday, Director of STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog. Jorge is ..read more

This blog is part of our series of conversations on all things podcast to celebrate the launch of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco. This time we are speaking with Louis Laurence, Investigative Research Assistant at the University of Bath. Louis ..read more

Written by Rosemary Hiscock, Research Associate   Figure 1 Independent companies contribute to the tobacco supply chain The addictive properties of nicotine enable transnational tobacco companies to amass enormous profits from supplying tobacco products.1 2 These companies are not the ..read more

In November 2024, a small team from the Tobacco Control Research Group travelled to Bali, Indonesia to take part in the Union World Conference on Lung Health. Here, communications and marketing lead Jacqueline Oliver reflects on the event.  Tobacco use ..read more

Written by Phil Chamberlain, Deputy Director in the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath In post-war South Africa, investigative journalist Henry Nxumalo came out of the army and began working for the magazine Drum.  He published a ..read more

The Tobacco Control Research Group has long been supportive of postgraduate research. In fact, TCRG was recently awarded a Doctoral Recognition Award by the University of Bath's Doctoral College. This award recognises the ways in which we have our group has "significantly contributed to enhancing the research environment for our students".  Over the past decade the group has seen 10 PhD students through to graduation. We currently have a further 3 PhD candidates. Most of these students submitted or will submit a thesis in the alternative format. Also referred to as an “integrated submissi ..read more

The 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) took place in February 2024. Members of the Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) at the University of Bath attended the event; TCRG has had observer status since the 9th WHO FCTC COP. TCRG members who monitored COP10 from Panamá and the UK have written an editorial for Health Promotion International. The editorial covers what we observed regarding the activities of the tobacco industry, industry front groups, and other organisations. Read on for some highlig ..read more

The UK government’s smokefree generation policy announced in October 2023 plans to stop the sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or later by raising the smoking age by one year each year. New research from University College London supports this tobacco endgame policy and in particular the choice to include all tobacco products within the scope of the generational ban, not just cigarettes. Other tobacco products include cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, waterpipe tobacco products (for example shisha), chewing tobacco, heated tobacco, nasal tobacco (snuff) and herbal smoking products ..read more

Written by Dr Sophie Braznell, Research Co-ordinator in the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath The risks of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are fiercely debated. Nonetheless, it is clear e-cigarettes are not without risk, especially for children and young adults. In addition to nicotine addiction and adverse effects on oral, respiratory and cardiovascular health, youths who vape are at risk of harming their brain’s development and poor mental health including depression and suicidality. Despite this, increasing numbers of them are using e-cigarettes. So, the question ..read more

You will probably have heard of the Climate Change COP, an annual meeting of the signatories to the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. But have you heard of the Tobacco Control COP?   What is the Tobacco Control COP? The Conference of the Parties (COP) is a biennial meeting of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The WHO FCTC was developed to protect public health from the tobacco epidemic in a cooperative and global manner. The conference will take place between 5 - 10 February. It is an opport ..read more