Publications
Key publications
Summary results of the global youth tobacco survey in selected countries of the WHO European Region (2020)
This publication summarizes the results of descriptive analyses of GYTS data from 25 countries in the WHO European Region.
Note on tobacco excise tax in Ukraine (2020)
Ukraine is recognized internationally as having implemented some of the best practices in relation to taxation of tobacco products, particularly cigarettes.
Fact sheet on tobacco and electronic cigarette use in Ukraine (2019 data)
Conducted in Ukraine for the first time, the survey also provides data on behavioural and biological risk factors for NCDs across the country, needed to evaluate progress, set priorities, and plan policies, interventions and actions to protect Ukrainian people’s health and reduce the rate of mortality due to NCDs in coming years.
Tobacco control in Ukraine: Assessment of current status of tobacco control and opportunities for further development (2020)
A new report shows that despite the progress achieved in Ukraine in the past 10 years, a more comprehensive approach is needed to tackle tobacco use and its associated health issues in the country.
Heated tobacco products: a brief (2020)
Heated tobacco products (HTPs) are tobacco products that produce an emission containing nicotine and other chemicals, which is then inhaled by users.
Electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems: a brief (2020)
Electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems (EN&NNDS) are a heterogeneous class of products that use an electrically powered coil to heat and turn a liquid into an aerosol, which is inhaled by the user.
Country case studies on electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems regulation 2019 (2020)
Throughout the world, governments use different approaches to regulate EN&NNDS in their marketplace.
Tobacco control in Ukraine: Assessment of current status of tobacco control and opportunities for further development (2020) Executive summary
Executive summary. A new report shows that despite the progress achieved in Ukraine in the past 10 years, a more comprehensive approach is needed to tackle tobacco use and its associated health issues in the country.
Tobacco use and mental health. Policy brief (2020)
This policy briefing focuses on the interplay between mental health conditions and tobacco use. It reviews the evidence behind tobacco control interventions targeting people with mental health conditions and explains why they should be implemented.
Cultural Contexts at a Glance, No. 2: Tobacco control in the WHO European Region (2020)
This paper examines some of the historical and cultural contexts of tobacco control in the WHO European Region.
Time to Deliver in Europe. Meeting noncommunicable disease targets to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (2019)
This short report sets out some of the key messages and shared learning from the first European high-level conference on NCDs held in Ashgabat in December 2013.
Strengthening capacity for noncommunicable disease implementation research in the WHO European Region (2019)
This report provides an overview WHO/Europe’s approach to implementation research, the content of the workshop, workshop findings, and highlights IR project proposals developed by each Member States during the four days. WHO looks forward to the continued development of each of these proposals and is continuing to provide technical expertise and support to each.
Making tobacco a thing of the past: Taking action. Implementation of the Ashgabat declaration: Towards a tobacco-free WHO European Region(2019)
This final report provides an overview of the accomplishments of the project both at regional level, to accelerate action towards implementation of the Ashgabat Declaration, and within Turkmenistan, towards supporting the country’s ambition of serving as a model country in tobacco control.
European tobacco use: Trends report 2019 (2019)
This document provides the latest available data on the current situation and changes over time in tobacco-use monitoring, health impacts, prevalence of tobacco use, health systems’ response to the tobacco epidemic, and the role of human rights and health policy in increasing awareness of the circumstances and effects of tobacco use.
Planning healthy and sustainable meetings. A practical guide (2019)
The purpose of this manual is to offer guidance and provide feasible examples of how to plan healthier meetings and events at the WHO Regional Office for Europe and other workplaces wishing to promote health.
Tobacco Control Playbook (2019)
This document reflects the challenges that tobacco control leaders have faced while implementing various articles of the WHO FCTC and highlights arguments they have developed in order to counter and succeed against the tobacco industry.
Taking stock: Tobacco control in the WHO European Region in 2017(2017)
This brief report looks at the latest tobacco-use prevalence data for the WHO European Region, taken from the 2017 report on the global tobacco epidemic, considers reports on the global tobacco epidemic since 2008 and the progress made against the implementation of MPOWER in the European Region
Natural experiment studies project - Helping to build capacity for high-quality evaluations of public health interventions - prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (2018)
The WHO Regional Office for Europe worked with a number of national ministries of health and their nominated research teams to develop natural experiment studies looking at national interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Four studies reached completion and publication.
Consumption and approaches to the regulation of nasvay in the Commonwealth of Independent States (2018)
This brief paper looks at smokeless tobacco use, specifically the use of nasvay, in the Commonwealth of Independent States. It considers the latest available smokeless tobacco prevalence data and specifies the available policy responses.
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Turkey - The case for investment (2018)
An intervention costing analysis provides an estimate of the funding required to implement a set of policy interventions for prevention and clinical interventions.
Tobacco-free generations - Protecting children from tobacco in the WHO European Region (2017)
This report highlights ongoing and emerging tobacco-related issues that affect children in the Region and examines the regulatory frameworks, commitments and other tools that Member States should use to protect children from tobacco.
Tobacco control: a comprehensive approach at country level in the Russian Federation (2017)
At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, the Russian Federation was among the countries with highest prevalence of tobacco-smoking. The government’s efforts to reduce tobacco-smoking did not lead to any reduction in the tobacco epidemic in the country.
Tobacco control and the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a United Nations initiative, formally adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015 in a resolution entitled Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Empower women: Facing the challenge of tobacco use in Europe (2015)
One of the most striking things about smoking prevalence in the European Region in the last two decades has been the relentless increase in smoking by women and girls. This book looks at the best examples of tobacco control policies and programmes worldwide.
