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About us
The World Health Organization’s response to the tobacco epidemic
The Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) was established in July 1998 to focus international attention, resources and action on the global tobacco epidemic.
TFI's objective
TFI's objective is to reduce the global burden of disease and death caused by tobacco, thereby protecting present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. To accomplish its mission, TFI:
- provides global policy leadership;
- encourages mobilization at all levels of society; and
- promotes the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), encourages countries to adhere to its principles, and supports them in their efforts to implement tobacco control measures based on its provisions.
TFI's global structure
TFI is part of the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) cluster at WHO headquarters (HQ) in Geneva. Regional advisers for tobacco control are based in WHO's regional offices for Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, South-East Asia and the Western Pacific. TFI-HQ works closely with its regional advisers to plan and implement all activities. Its regional advisers, in turn, collaborate with WHO's country representatives and liaison officers to facilitate tobacco control activities at regional and country level. Most of TFI's major activities are coordinated by its regional offices and decentralized to country level.
Contact information
Tobacco Free Initiative
WHO/Noncommunicable Disease and Mental Health
20 Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 791 4426
Fax: + 41 22 791 4832
E-mail: tfi@who.int
Related links
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Tobacco Free Initiative home page
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WHO tobacco sites
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