Resource Library

Author: Government of India

Author: UNDP

A toolkit to provide a roadmap for establishing multisectoral strategies, plans and programmes for tobacco control in line with WHO FCTC Article 5.1.

Author: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

The Global Health Advocacy Incubator by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids provides strategic support to advocates planning and executing high impact campaigns to enact and implement laws that save lives.

Author: Johns Hopkins University

This course offers free instructional training to people interested in learning more about tobacco control.

Author: Vital Strategies

Campaign Beacon is an online resource from Vital Strategies of tested and proven, best practice media campaign materials designed to support tobacco control health objectives.

Author: Drope et al.

The sixth edition of Tobacco atlas and its companion website provide comprehensive guidance on tobacco control issues and tools used to counter them. Use the Tobacco Atlas to explore key issues and solutions and the companion website to search for country specific information.

Author: World Health Organization

This online tool was developed by WHO to support stakeholder mapping in Family Planning but can be adapted for use in tobacco control.

Author: The Union

This guide promotes best practice for conducting studies of compliance with smoke-free laws, including the rationale for doing or not doing a study, the knowledge and resources needed, and how to design the study and effectively disseminate the results. Available in English and Spanish.

Author: World Health Organization

This WHO FCTC glossary defines terms used in the FCTC and its instruments. It can be used for educational purposes and to aid a better understanding of the FCTC.

Author: National Health Service, UK

This document is England's official guide on their 2007 smokefree law. It is directed towards managers responsible for complying with the smokefree law in workplaces and public places.

Author: World Health Organization

This WHO publication offers practical guidance to assist staff and city officials prepare for and implement smokefree legislation. 

Author: World Health Organization

This publication contains the guidelines adopted by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) at its second (2007), third (2008), fourth (2010) and fifth (2012) sessions. 

Author: HealthBridge

This booklet provides an overview of key smokefree enforcement issues and sources of more information- because the authors live in Bangladesh this booklet draws heavily on examples from that country, but most of the issues are universal and approaches should easily be adaptable.

Author: World Health Organization

This guide from the WHO Regional Office for Africa provides useful tools for all those involved in promoting enforcement of, and compliance with, tobacco control legislation.

Author: Washington University Center for Public Health Systems Science

Set of tools for program sustainability including a self assessment guide and a program framework guide. 

Author: The Union

A tool to measure the sustainability of national tobacco control programmes. Includes a report of tobacco control sustainability assessments from 24 countries with the world’s highest tobacco burden.

Author: Global Smokefree Partnership

This toolkit from the Global Smoke-free Partnership draws on the experience of jurisdictions that have successfully implemented strong smoke-free laws, and captures some of the important lessons common to these efforts.

Author: Various

This is a set of smokefree hospital strategic guides to equip those implementing smokefree policies with the tools for effective implementation and enforcement.