To provide standardized tobacco use data and track key tobacco control measures, Bloomberg Philanthropies is providing the CDC Foundation with a two-year, $14 million grant that will enable CDC, in partnership with the World Health Organization, to conduct repeat tobacco usage surveys in 11 countries to measure tobacco control progress.

The four-year grant will enable the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, to build and enhance tobacco use surveillance and research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, providing nationally representative data to track tobacco use and trends across the region.

A study conducted by RTI International in nine states concludes that statewide smoke-free laws would not be expected to have an adverse economic impact on restaurants and bars in these states. The study, which was supported by the CDC Foundation, was released today in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.

The Government of Turkey today announced that substantially fewer Turkish adult citizens smoked cigarettes in 2012 versus 2008. In its announcement, the Turkish government cited results from its second round of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). The survey showed that 14.8 million people or 27.1 percent of the Turkish population indicated that they smoked in 2012 versus 16 million people or 31.2 percent of the population in 2008. This work was made possible by a grant to the CDC Foundation from Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.

Michael R. Bloomberg announced today that he will commit an additional $220 million to fight tobacco use around the world through the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.  The CDC Foundation is one of five partner organizations involved in the Initiative.

To generate scientifically defensible and rapidly available data to assess the effectiveness of e-cigarette flavor restriction policies, the Monitoring the E-cigarette Use Among Youth in Select U.S. Cities and States program has been underway since 2019 with program activities that include: 1) analyzing retail sales data for e-cigarettes and other tobacco products and 2) implementing surveys to collect timely estimates of e-cigarette use and related behaviors among youth and young adults.

To monitor the global tobacco epidemic as well as enhance capacity for tobacco control programs in high-burden tobacco use countries and to measure reductions in e-cigarette use by working to include company retail sales data in national tobacco surveys.

To develop, implement and evaluate tobacco control policies and interventions that can reduce tobacco use at the national and global levels, the CDC Foundation supports CDC and other global partners to implement components of the GTSS to monitor adult tobacco use and key tobacco control measures in high-burden tobacco use countries. Additionally, the CDC Foundation supports CDC in strengthening country-level research and capacity to inform programs and policies in high-burden tobacco use countries.