Biennial Reports
The TAG produces summary reports every two years on key pieces of funded work and advocacy activities conducted (often in partnership) in the UK, EU and internationally.

Download the Cancer Research UK Tobacco Advisory Group's biennial report - 2005 to 2007 (PDF, 1.3MB); report - 2003 to 2005 (PDF, 486KB).

TAG particularly funds research and activities that support:

• Smokefree workplaces across the UK and internationally, and other measures to protect against second hand smoke exposure;
• Greater regulation of all tobacco and nicotine-containing products;
• Development and implementation of the WHO treaty, the 'Framework Convention on Tobacco Control';
• Greater tax/smuggling measures in the UK and internationally;
• UK tobacco research needs; building research capacity and supporting research in to practice;
• Tacking health inequalities and addressing the needs of groups with particularly high rates of tobacco use.

Examples of recent funded work:

UK and EU

• Part funding of the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). ASH plays a key role in providing information to the public, the tobacco control community, decision makers and the media about key tobacco control issues and influencing the tobacco control agenda.
• Funding of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research (CTCR), University of Stirling The CTCR was established by a predecessor organisation to Cancer Research UK in 1999. The Centre develops and evaluates interventions designed to prevent smoking uptake and encourage cessation; investigates the processes and effects of the tobacco industry's marketing activities and evaluates specific tobacco control policies to identify those that successfully change smoking behaviour.
• Support for a Network Manager position within the UKCRC Centre for Tobacco Control Studies to help translate and disseminate research findings to the media and the wider tobacco control community.
• Partnership funding of the EU Smokefree Partnership (ESP) Based in Brussels, the ESP runs a coordinated tobacco control programme of advocacy, lobbying and research at the EU level. Much UK legislation is affected by EU legislation.

International

• With The American Cancer Society and other international partners, funding of various grants schemes for advocates in low- and middle- income countries.
• With Research International for Tobacco Control, funding of a grants scheme for policy researchers in low- and middle- income countries.
• With the American Cancer Society, funding of the African Tobacco Control Resource Initiative to help support information sharing and capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Funding of work to support the development of guidelines and protocols on cross border advertising and smuggling as part of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
• Support for the Global Smokefree Partnership which aims to promote effective smokefree air policies worldwide.
• Research to examine appropriate stop smoking services in parts of China, via the University of Birmingham.
• Funding for a DVD on economic cost of tobacco farming and use in East Africa. 'The Tobacco Trap', is available to view (Windows Media Player, 36MB, 12 minutes). This material is for limited use only and should not be duplicated and/or sold.

For further information on how you can apply to the TAG for funding, please click here.

Other tobacco control sites of interest: Policy Statements. Consultation Responses. Tobacco producs and cancer risk. How to quit smoking. Recent Mass media campaigns (funded by the Department of Health) 'Light and Mild'; 'Smoke is Poison'; 'Welcome to the Great Indoors'.