Tobacco Control Research Group

✨ The first three episodes of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco are out now! ✨ 🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account. bath.ac.uk/campaigns/dead…

It was a pleasure to host participants from 25 countries online and in Bath for our #TIMRA2025 course earlier this month. Helping the #tobaccocontrol community to hold the tobacco industry to account is a fundamental aim of TIMRA. Watch our Research Consultant Fred explain more

We are #recruiting a new Research Assistant to be a valuable member of our Tobacco Tactics team. If you want to help us research and uncover the activities of the transnational tobacco industry, apply by Wednesday 13 August. bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… #PublicHealthJobs

Are you a clear, accurate and compelling writer with experience of conducting and recording research? Are you interested in working at the cutting edge of public health? Join Tobacco Tactics as a Research Assistant! Applications close Tues 5 August: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…

(1/5) NEW: A must-read by @ChristinaChinSG in @staronline exposes how women and children can be targeted with heated tobacco products. Despite tobacco companies’ claims, their marketing tactics tell a different story. 🧵

📢 #Newjob alert Are you a proactive problem-solver with excellent organisational skills? Are you interested in the challenges facing public health globally? Join the Centre for 21st Century Public Health as Operations Officer! ⏳ Apply by Wed 22 July: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…

Our 🆕 #AI research looks at frameworks to evaluate the performance of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Identifying the best approach for this work will allow us to confidently use RAG systems in our #research on tobacco industry activities. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Wow, what a week this has been! It has been a delight to connect with and train #TobaccoControl experts from 25 different countries, in person & online, on tobacco industry monitoring, research and accountability. Huge thanks to all of our #TIMRA2025 participants and trainers.

The public is already much further along in thinking about gradually introduced tobacco bans than most policymakers. This became apparent during the Global Tobacco Endgame Summit in Dublin. The time is ripe to ban the sale of tobacco products. @Wdekanter tabaknee.nl/news/item/3274…

The sun is shining for day 4 of #TIMRA2025! Today our TCRG team and guest experts are delivering insightful training on a range of important topics including digital safety, investigative skills, media and communications and #impact. #TobaccoControl #training

#WCTC2025 may be over, but the tobacco control conversations continue. One of STOP's highlights was joining sessions led by network partners like @BathTR, who are addressing every angle of the issue. Here’s @tess_legg sharing takeaways on her symposium.

Congrats to Prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry & @ali_fabbri for the publication of their new paper in the latest edition of @FutureHealthJ. This special edition focusses on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in #PublicHealth and Policy. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.…

Today is day 3️⃣ of #TIMRA2025 and already it has been a great day full of insightful conversations and knowledge sharing. On the agenda for today we have sessions on AI & big data, supply chain, influencing science and more.

I’d start with the article on tobacco - “Why addressing conflicts of interest is essential to progress in reducing commercially driven health harms: Lessons from tobacco” By authors from @BathTR including Anna Gilmore, Rachel Barry and @ali_fabbri It concisely defines the much…

Four industries – tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol – cause 34% of all deaths. It’s never been more important to talk about how these, and other industries, shape health and health policy, so I’m proud to have guest edited the latest issue of @FutureHealthJ…

It's day two of our annual Tobacco Industry Monitoring, Research and Accountability course! #TIMRA2025 On today’s schedule we have sessions on #illicittobacco, #tobaccotaxation and networking both online and here in Bath.

#TIMRA2025 begins today 🎉 All week we will be training tobacco control researchers and advocates on the skills they need to support the implementation of tobacco control #policy and monitor #tobaccoindustry influence internationally. Let's get going!

On Monday our annual Tobacco Industry Monitoring, Research and Accountability course starts! We can’t wait to meet tobacco control researchers & advocates from around the world in Bath & online. 🌏 👀 Watch Professor Anna Gilmore discuss what people can expect from #TIMRA2025.

It’s the last day of #WCTC2025 in Dublin! Today we chaired and presented at a well-attended session providing the latest evidence around Heated Tobacco Products #HTPs and shared our research on tobacco industry intimidation. @WCTC_official

Today, Day 2 of #WCTC2025, our researchers have presented on tobacco industry influence on science, progress with tobacco endgame in the UK, and how Big Tobacco undermines taxation in LMICs. If you are in Dublin at WCTC, you can find us at Booth B2508. @WCTC_official

Exciting first day @ #WCTC2025 in Dublin. 1,300 delegates from >100 countries. Today we presented on #tobaccoindustry responses to endgame, flue-cured tobacco, tobacco in conflict zones, #tobaccotax in Ukraine and how to protect youth from Big Tobacco. @WCTC_official