The ITC Project mission is to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioural effects of national-level tobacco control policies throughout the world.

The project follows thousands of adult smokers over five or more years from the survey start date in their respective countries. The start dates are strategically chosen to follow changes in national-level tobacco policies according to the recommendations of the first and currently only international treaty on health, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

The study focuses not only on whether a given policy has its desired effect, but also on how and why those policy effects are achieved. The first wave of surveys in each country is administered just before a large policy change takes place. The surveys continue over a five year period to monitor the impact of likely FCTC-based policy changes as they are implemented, allowing researchers to perform a series of multiple natural experiments.

For further information on the ITC Project, please see our brochure or contact:

  Geoffrey T. Fong, Ph.D.
  Department of Psychology
  University of Waterloo
  200 University Avenue West 
  Waterloo, Ontario
  N2L 3G1
  Canada
  itc@uwaterloo.ca

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Sponsors

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project thanks the following granting agencies for their financial partnership in helping to capture important data during this crucial time for tobacco control policy: