AUB - Tobacco Control Research Group

Tobacco Taxation Stakeholders Meeting at the Grand Serial, April 4, 2012

The team of AUB researchers has found that raising taxes on tobacco products would both reduce the prevalence of smoking-related diseases as well as bring in much needed revenues into the national Treasury.

News & Events

Last important decree signed by government (latest decree)
World Cancer Day 2012 Celebration at the Syndicate of Doctors.

AUB Smoking Cessation Program: If you see them Congratulate them (Smoking Cessation Program)
Recent News Coverage on the adoption of the law (Al Akhbar Article)
Video Clip (Why Partial smoking bans don't work ) from February 2010 Press Conference watch
The Official Tobacco Control Law in Lebanon - 3 September 2011

Lebanon's Parliament FINALLY endorsed a Tobacco Control Law on Wednesday 17 August 2011 (Read more about it in the Media Round Up)
AUB-TCRG urges the Lebanese Parliamentarians to vote for a STRONG "Tobacco Control Law" through sending them letters and messages via the media.. ( see articles in the media)

Welcome!

The AUB Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB -TCRG) has a two-year grant from the International Development Research Center-Research for International Tobacco Control (IDRC-RITC) to support tobacco control research, dissemination, and networking in Lebanon and the region. Housed in the Faculty of Health Sciences' Center for Research on Population and Health the project supports the dissemination of information on the local level, the translation of its findings into policy, and the development of a tobacco control regional research network.

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