Members of the Center for Studies on Tobacco and Health (CETAB) of the Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) and guests met this morning (October 6th) at the FIOTEC headquarters to participate in discussions organized to launch the Special Thematic Edition of Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health (CSP) “Tobacco Control Policy in Brazil: Progress and Challenges”.

The opening presentation in the event was by Valeska Figueiredo of CETAB, with the first public discussion of the findings from the study “Tobacco use in Brazilian television programs and spinoffs in Brazilian Portuguese-language social networks”, funded by INOVA-ENSP Program and supported by FIOTEC.

The event’s program included three more talks: “Tobacco control: new challenges for the 21st century”, by Silvana Turci of CETAB; “Economic policy and tobacco control in the world and Brazil”, by Jeffrey Drope of the American Cancer Society; and “Electronic cigarettes and new devices: threat or opportunity for tobacco control?” led by Tania Cavalcante of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA).

All the lectures were given by members of the opening panel, except for Silvana Turci, the meeting’s chairperson. During the opening session, the speakers were joined by Claudia Medina, representing Cadernos de Saúde Pública (CSP), and Laura Viana, representing the Office of the Assistant Director for Research, ENSP/FIOCRUZ.

“It is highly gratifying for me as an administrator to witness the success, the results, of all the savings we achieved, expressing the strengthening of tobacco control policy, an extremely important public health issue. My congratulations to all those involved in this publication, and I wish CETAB further success, increasingly reaping the fruits and further strengthening tobacco control policy,” commented Laura Viana, mentioning the research funding from the INOVA-ENSP Program.