Tobacco Control Research Unit
Tobacco kills eight million people each year, including 65,000 children who die from diseases related to second-hand smoke. The rise of new nicotine and tobacco products such as e-cigarates presents new challenges and complexities in the fight against tobacco.
MANT has been working in Tobacco control in West Bengal from 2005 onwards with much success.
The Case study of Smoke-free Howrah that was successfully facilitated by MANT has been published by WHO as part of the much-awaited book, i.e. The Power of Cities: Tackling Noncommunicable
Diseases and Road Traffic Injuries.
MANT was also awarded the Best NGO in Tobacco Control in the 5th National Conference on Tobacco or Health held on 25th-27th September 2021 at Chandigarh, India, organized by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), a public medical university at Chandigarh. Recently, the Medica Group of Hospitals felicitated MANT for its contribution to Cancer
Prevention on World Cancer Day on 4th February 2023.
Past Research Projects:
Study on Compliance with Tobacco Control Legislation in 5 Districts of West Bengal in 2017.
Conducted a study on the immediate impact of demonetization on tobacco sales with technical support from The Union (2018-19). The paper was sent for Publication.
Conducted Air-Quality Monitoring in Designated Smoking Areas and Rooms in Kolkata in 2018-19.
Worked as a state partner to conduct two studies, i.e.,
a) JHU Compliance Study on Bidi/SLT Monitoring and
b) JHU Compliance Study on Film Rules in 2019-20
In 2021-22, conducted 3 studies:
a) Study on Bidi Brands in West Bengal
b) Enumeration Survey of Tobacco Vendors in 10 Municipalities and 2 Municipal Corporations
c) Study on Compliance of Film Rules in Bengali Cinemas, TV Serials and Web-series
As a Partner of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA, we have implemented/been Implementing the following research studies:
Assessment of Compliance with tobacco product display and point-of-sale tobacco control policies and tobacco vendor density in Siliguri, India, in 2020-21
Tobacco Litter Pilot Study in Kolkata from June 2022 to August 2022
Two Abstracts were selected for Presentation at the 2023 Annual Meeting of SRNT (Abstract No – POS2-36, Page no 121 and Abstract No- POS3-63, Page no- 161.
Tobacco Litter Study in 9 States in India from September 2022 to December 2022
Post Implementation Research in Siliguri from October 2022- December 2022
Present Studies:
CPHR has been working on 3 major research activities with support from International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease:
Return on Investment of Tobacco Control in India
Economic Impact of Tobacco Use in India
Estimation of Tobacco waste in India for the last 100 years
In addition
CPHR has also been involved in conducting research/systematic reviews by using its own resources:
Epidemiological, humanistic and economic burden of tobacco attributable diseases in India: A systematic review
Strategies for tobacco control in India: a scoping review
How Household Nutrition has been impacted by tobacco consumption in India: A State- level analysis
Two Abstracts were selected for Presentation at the 2023 Annual Meeting of SRNT (Abstract No – POS2-36, Page no 121 and Abstract No- POS3-63, Page no- 161.
Impact of Tobacco Taxation: A comparison of Pre and Post GST Regime
Publications:
Tobacco product litter as a form of postconsumption marketing: an observational study in India
Journal: BMJ Tobacco Control
Authors: Graziele Grilo, Bekir Kaplan, hJoanna E Cohen, Paramita Bhattacharya, Nirmalya Mukherjee, Kevin Welding, Ryan David Kennedy
Jan 2024
Study on the Impact of Gutkha Ban in the states of West Bengal and Kerala in collaboration with Regional Cancer Centre- Trivandrum (2018-19)
Published in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol. 18, 2022, 101160,
Raising the age of purchase and use of tobacco product in Bangladesh: benefits and challenges in protecting youth from the tobacco epidemic published in Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
Volume 22, S2, November 2021, Pages 65-70
Publication fees were borne by WHO- SEARO.
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