Israel Becomes The 30th Participating Country in The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project is the first-ever international cohort study of tobacco use. Its overall objective is to measure the psychosocial and behavioural impact of key national level policies of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). ITC Surveys are being conducted in 31 countries, inhabited by over 50% of the world’s population, over 60% of the world’s smokers, and over 70% of the world’s tobacco users across all 6 WHO Regions.  In 2021, the ITC Project partnered with Prof. Laura Rosen (Dept. of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine) and Prof. David Steinberg (Dept. of Statistics) at Tel Aviv University to establish the ITC Israel (IL) Survey. Wave 1 of the survey will be conducted March 2022 and will include 650 respondents drawn from a representative sample of the Israeli adult population. The main topics of the survey are: knowledge and attitudes of Israelis towards tobacco and nicotine use (cigarettes, hookah, e-cigarettes, IQOS, etc.), relative risk perceptions, and support for laws.

 

Participation in the ITC Project is a golden opportunity for public health researchers in Israel to collaborate with other researchers around the world. The ITC Israel Survey will collect data about tobacco and nicotine product use with potential to inform efforts by policy makers in Israel and elsewhere to strengthen efforts to reduce tobacco use, the leading preventable cause of death and disease.  

 

Funding: The ITC Israel Project was supported by grants from the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (2818/295) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (FDN-148477). Additional support to GTF is provided by a Senior Investigator Grant from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

 

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