Category: Global Adult Tobacco Survey
World No Tobacco Day – Tobacco Surveillance in Barangay Looc, Province of Zambales, Philippines; Reflections on GTCB’s Worldwide Impact
As an IT Specialist working for the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Office on Smoking and Health’s Global Tobacco Control Branch (GTCB), I have had the opportunity to travel to many places around the world. We conduct several surveys and I mainly work with the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). I provide technical support Read More >
Posted on byIf We Can Measure It, We Can Manage It: Tracking the Global Tobacco Epidemic
Identified as the most preventable causes of death and disease in the world, the tobacco use epidemic is expanding to many low-and middle-income countries. Approximately 6 million people die annually from tobacco. To put this into perspective, the number of annual deaths from tobacco is equivalent to 2,699 Titanic ships sinking every year. Surveillance has Read More >
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