Resource Library

Author: Vital Strategies

Watch this webinar, where Vital Strategies and Counter Tools bring together experts from North America for an interactive webinar, sharing experiences, resources and tools for effective implementation and enforcement of tobacco control policies at the point of sale.

Author: UNDP

A toolkit to provide a roadmap for establishing multisectoral strategies, plans and programmes for tobacco control in line with WHO FCTC Article 5.1.

Author: Johns Hopkins University

This course offers free instructional training to people interested in learning more about tobacco control.

Author: Association for Better Pakistan (2019)

This report assesses the model and achievements of the implementation of The West Pakistan Tobacco Vend Act-1958 since 2015.

Author: World Health Organization

The 2018 global progress report on the implementation of WHO FCTC. 

Author: Levy et al. (2013)

This study aims to determine the number of smoking-attributable deaths were averted due to the implementation of MPOWER policies. 

Author: Levy et al. (2018)

This study aims to evaluated the global progress of the six MPOWER measures and their impact across 88 countries that have adopted one or more measure from 2007 to 2014.

Author: Proctor et al. (2010)

This paper proposes a general working taxonomic of eight implementation elements to measure implementation outcomes, advance implementation processes, and improve effectiveness of implementation strategies.

Author: The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project

This report reviews the global evidence on the impact of the WHO FCTC implementation of tobacco control legislation. 

Author: The Tobacco Law Project

This report evaluates the enforcement practices, and barriers of the Commercial Youth Access Enforcement efforts in Minnesota, USA, providing recommendation for future enforcement efforts. 

Author: Department of Health and Social Care, UK Government

An example of a national delivery and monitoring plan. Published in conjunction with the Tobacco Control Plan for England, it identifies lead agencies, milestones and metrics to measure success.

Author: Washington University Center for Public Health Systems Science

Set of tools for program sustainability including a self assessment guide and a program framework guide. 

Author: The Union

A tool to measure the sustainability of national tobacco control programmes. Includes a report of tobacco control sustainability assessments from 24 countries with the world’s highest tobacco burden.

Author: Public Health Ontario

An example of a research synthesis to inform tobacco control policy and strategy. This report from Ontario, Canada, provides a comprehensive assessment of the tobacco control interventions that would have the greatest impact on reducing tobacco use and its associated burden in Ontario.