Our team participated in a global partners meeting for the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, alongside around 200 other tobacco control researchers and practitioners from around the globe, taking stock of the past two decades of tobacco control progress and setting future priorities.

Our researchers Nora Kungl and Kristijan Fidanovski participated at the European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH) from May 20-22 in Milan with a poster presentation on the demand elasticities of cigarette consumption and a paper presentation on the Marlboro indices of cigarette affordability.

On March 18 and 19, wiiw-HEPA attended closed-door consultations in Brussels on the proposed revisions to the Tobacco Tax Directive. The event, organized by the Smokefree Partnership for dozens of policymakers and researchers, included presentations from wiiw-HEPA’s Bulgarian and Polish grantees.