Wash., DC, 26 Feb 2018 (PAHO) - As part of the efforts to promote the adoption of tobacco taxes as a tobacco control measure and foster implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Pan American Health Organization, The Secretariat of the FCTC, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Chicago at Illinois and the International Development Research Center from Canada jointly organized a Training on the Economics of Tobacco Control for practitioners, researchers and advocates in Latin America and the Caribbean with the aim of providing platform to facilitate knowledge exchange among countries regarding experiences in increasing tobacco taxes, for researchers of the Latin-American and Caribbean (LAC) region to present innovative policy-oriented work, and for international stakeholders, researchers, and practitioners in tobacco taxation in the region to discuss evidence needs, collaboration and synergies
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The five core issues discussed were smoke-free public places, advertising of tobacco products with a special focus on surrogate advertising, tobacco industry tactics, pictorial warnings on tobacco products and tobacco taxation
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