10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health

Tobacco industry strategies to undermine the 8th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that Philip Morris and British American Tobacco Company attempted to initiate a wide ranging campaign to undermine the success of the 8th World Conference on Tobacco or Health held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1992. DATA SOURCES Publicly available tobacco industry documents housed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Guilford, UK; on-line document websites; and telephone...

Research for effective global tobacco control in the 21st century: report of a working group convened during the 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.

Introduction The 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health was held in Beijing at a critical juncture for the world’s tobacco control movement. Facing a declining market in many Western, developed countries and formidable law suits in the United States, the major tobacco companies of the developed nations have aggressively turned to developing countries as their future markets. This global con...

Network analysis of global tobacco control collaboration: data from the World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH)

BACKGROUND The World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) is held every three years to foster communication and collaboration on global tobacco control. Very little is known about the nature of interactions between WCTOH attendees and their linkages to tobacco control organizations, so knowing this information could help improve tobacco control efforts. METHODS At the 2015 WCTOH, we implem...

Pakistan International Biennial Conference on “Ramadan and Health”-10th & 11th October 2015.

10th International Conference

VIBRISKS seeks to improve understanding of the risk of injury from hand-transmitted vibration and whole-body vibration by means of epidemiological studies supported by fundamental laboratory research. VIBRISKS is a consortium of six partners from six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK). The four-year research project, which commenced in 2003, involves three ...