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ICO leads a European educational project that enables students in Health Sciences in Europe to learn how to offer support for smoking cessation

Over a thousand students from four European countries will test the first online learning tool aimed at combating smoking, a pandemic that, despite being non-transmissible, causes 8 million deaths worldwide every year and 700,000 in the European Union. The development and testing of this tool are two of the central objectives of the INSTrUCT Project, […]

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Training session online: Brief Intervention Course on Tobacco Cessation

Are you a Health Science Degree Lecturer/Instructor in one of our Universities? Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Lleida, Universidad de Navarra, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, King’s College London, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel. Join us! Next 15th – 16th December, the INSTrUCT consortium will hold an online training session about

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Impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en el control del tabaco a escala global. Jueves, 16 de julio 2020, 16:00 – 17:15 h (CEST)

Es un placer anunciar el tercer “Tobacco Control Webinar” del ICO/Centro Colaborador de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. En esta ocasión, abordaremos con tres ponentes excepcionales la influencia de la pandemia de COVID-19 en diversos aspectos del control del tabaco a nivel global. El Webinar es gratuito. Para participar se debe hacer el

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“Messing around in times of COVID: interference from the tobacco industry”

Second webinar of the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, WHO Collaborating Centre that took place on June 4, 2020. CONCLUSIONS The first speaker, Armando Peruga, MD, epidemiologist, researcher at the Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge and Professor at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile, spoke to us about “the tobacco industry’s

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“Enredando en tiempos de COVID: interferencias de la industria tabaquera” (04/06/2020; 16:00h)

Tobacco Control Webinars Es un placer anunciar el segundo “Tobacco Control Webinar” del ICO/Centro Colaborador de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. Como parte de la celebración del Día Mundial sin Tabaco 2020, abordaremos desde una triple perspectiva las interferencias de la industria tabaquera en el control del tabaquismo. El Webinar es gratuito. Para participar se debe hacer el

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Conclusions del webinar “Tabac i COVID-19: amistats perilloses?”

Tabac i COVID-19: ¿amistats perilloses? Aquest va ser el títol del seminari web organitzat per la Unitat de Control del Tabac de l’Institut Català d’Oncologia, centre col·laborador de l’OMS i que va tenir lloc el passat 30 d‘abril amb l’assistència de 450 persones. Conclusions La primera ponència va ésser a càrrec del Dr. Joan B

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TCU Team participated in the 8th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH)

Researchers from Tobacco Control Unit Team joined other tobacco control and public health scientists and advocates from across Europe and beyond in the 8th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH) which was held in Berlin, from 19 to 22 February 2020. Our team contributed one oral communication by Ariadna Feliu “Factors associated with receipt

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JATC 2nd Interim Meeting

The 2nd JATC Interim Meeting took place on February 4-5th, 2020 in Brussels, joined by the members of the Ingredients Subgroup of the Expert Group in Tobacco Control. More than 70 European partners participating in the EU funded project, Joint Action on Tobacco Control, met for the third time after the project’s kick-off, in October

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