South Asian Regional Consortium Centre for Combating Tobacco (SARC-CCT) is the South Asian tobacco observatory established at the Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT) under the Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The main purpose of this tobacco observatory is to monitor tobacco industry activities and implementation of FCTC Article 5.3 in the region of South Asia.

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a treaty under international law adopted in May 2003 by the 56th World Health Assembly of the WHO. FCTC entered into force from February 2005, legally binding 181 ratifying countries as of 2019. FCTC Article 5.3 requires Parties, or the member countries, to protect their public health policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.

CCT at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo is the current national tobacco... [Read more]