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Tobacco Control in South-East Asia

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Tobacco is the world’s leading cause of preventable death, killing nearly 8 million persons every year. It claims around 3.1 million lives in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia (SEA) Region alone, which is also amongst the largest producers and consumers of tobacco products. India and Indonesia are among the top five producers of tobacco in the world.

Tobacco is closely linked to poverty and development in the Region. Large-scale tobacco use puts additional burden on national economies. Moreover, with the Region shouldering a high burden of tuberculosis, tobacco control assumes a critical role both at the regional and country level. Tobacco is also a major risk factor for leading non-communicable diseases (NCD) including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic lung diseases and diabetes mellitus.

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77% of the world’s

adult smokeless

tobacco users live in the South-East Asia Region

Around 1/3rd

of the world's

school children, 13 to 15 years, using tobacco, come from the Region

Myanmar currently

has Region’s highest

tobacco use prevalence among men @80% & women @29%. Timor-Leste has highest overall prevalence, 56%

Our Work

Events

World No Tobacco Day

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Documents

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The Regional consultation to prioritize tobacco control in South-East Asia with PreCOP10 (tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to WHO Framework...

Publications

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This report reviews the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in the South-East Asia Region over the past two decades....

This regional workshop was planned to address the challenges of illicit tobacco trade and unrecorded alcohol consumption in the countries of the Region....

ILLICIT TRADE OF TOBACCO IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION

Tobacco use is recognized as a global public health problem killing nearly 8 million people annually. Globally, an estimated 8.71 million deaths and 229.77...

Global Youth Tobacco Survey (‎GYTS)‎, Bhutan 2019

The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) was developed by the Tobacco-FreeInitiative (TFI), World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office on Smoking andHealth...

Testing of tobacco and related products

The importance of laboratory testing of tobacco products is reflected in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)....

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Executive summary Tobacco use has been identified as a major threat to health and development of the nations. Tobacco use and second-hand smoke lead to...

Monitoring tobacco control among youth in countries of the South-East Asia Region: 2018

Following the publication of the 2nd edition of the brochure on “WHO FCTC indicators related to youth tobacco control” in 2014, this third...

The fatal link between tobacco and cardiovascular diseases in the WHO South-East Asia Region - May 2018

Tobacco is the leading single risk factor that causes the highest number of preventable deaths (‎almost 1.58 million deaths each year)‎, cardiovascular...

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