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Title: Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC)


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Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC)
  • Tobacco - a Development Issue

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RITCs Mission
  • To create a strong research, knowledge and
    funding base for the development of effective
    tobacco control policies that will minimize the
    threat of tobacco production and consumption to
    health and human development in developing
    countries.

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RITC A Unique Program
  • Exclusively focused on supporting research for
    tobacco control policy
  • Emphasizes Southern-led, multi-disciplinary
    research
  • Particularly concerned about poor and vulnerable
    communities
  • Sees tobacco as a development issue not just a
    health issue
  • Economic impact at national and household level
  • Globalization
  • Production

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RITCs Priority Research Themes
  • These reflect RITCs emphasis on tobacco as a
    development issue, and the needs of vulnerable
    and marginalized populations
  • Poverty and Tobacco
  • Tobacco Farming Health, Social, Environmental
    and Economic Impacts
  • Health Systems Interventions
  • Globalization, Trade and Tobacco
  • Alternative Forms of Tobacco Use

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Tobacco grading and buying, Bangladesh
Farmers meeting, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Deforestation of the Chittagong Hillls
Siltation of the Matamuhri River
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WATERPIPES NARGHILE, SHISHA, HUBBLE BUBBLE,
HOOKAHS
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