Expression Of Interest for the 7th NCTOH

Call for bids from institutions and organizations to host the 7th National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH), India

The conference is a premier platform for researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and advocates to network, exchange knowledge, and collaborate on innovative tobacco control strategies. Bidders should show a commitment to tobacco control, the ability to organize a large-scale event, and engage diverse stakeholders. Proposals should detail the venue, logistics, proposed dates, and planned activities.

Affiliations with the tobacco industry1 including the Foundation for a Smoke-free World will make an individual ineligible to host, organize, attend or present at the conference. For declaration of Conflict of Interest ‘ Letter of undertaking ‘ is attached. Kindly fill it in and submit it along with EOI. 

Individuals wishing to host the National Conference on Tobacco Control or Health should declare past or present affiliations with any entity in the tobacco1 , Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Electronic Non-Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS/ENNDS)2 including:

  • any manufacturer, distributor, importer, or retailer of the industries mentioned above
  • any parent, affiliate, branch, or subsidiary of any manufacturer, distributor, importer, retailer of the industries mentioned above
  • front group or any individual or entity, such as, but not limited to an interest group, think tank, advocacy organisation, lawyer, law firm, scientist, lobbyist, advertising agency, business, or foundation, that represents, receives funding from, or works to promote the interests of the industries mentioned above. Note that the Foundation for a Smoke-free World is considered a front group of the tobacco industry.
  1. According to the key principles of the global tobacco control treaty, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the provisions of FCTC Article 5.3 Guidelines, there is an irreconcilable conflict of interest between the commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry and those of public health. Accordingly, the tobacco industry is defined to include any tobacco or tobacco product manufacturer, distributor, importer, or retailer, any parent, affiliate, branch, or subsidiary of a tobacco manufacturer, distributor, importer, retailer, or front group or any individual or entity, such as an interest group, think tank, advocacy organization, lawyer, law firm, scientist, lobbyist, advertising agency, business, or foundation, that represents, receives funding from, or works to promote tobacco products, their sale or to limit their regulation.
  2. According to the definition in FCTC_COP_7_11, ENDS/ENNDS are products that “heat a solution (e-liquid) to create an aerosol which frequently contains flavourants, usually dissolved into Propylene Glycol or/and Glycerin. All ENDS (but not ENNDS) contain nicotine. Although generally considered a single product class, these products constitute a diverse group with potentially significant differences in the production of toxicants and delivery of nicotine. There are several coexisting types of devices on the market: first-generation or so-called cigarlike, second- generation tank systems and even larger third-generation or personal vaporizers. Others classify these devices into closed and open systems depending mainly on the degree of control that users have over the e-liquid used and the voltage and resistance applied to heating the e-liquid and ventilation features.”
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