A Smoke-Free Caribbean: A Win/Win for Health and the Environment

A Smoke-Free Caribbean: A Win/Win for Health and the Environment, Monday May 30, 2022 10am – 11.30am AST/EDT.

This webinar is being jointly hosted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), the Caribbean Public Health Law Forum (CPHLF) and the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Law and Health Research Unit (LHRU) in celebration of World No Tobacco Day 2022. The overall aim of the webinar is to support CARICOM countries in achieving the goal of A 100% Smoke-Free-Caribbean by 2022. Specifically, the webinar seeks to outline the benefits of smoke-free policies to the environment, encourage CARICOM countries to implement their commitment to the implementation of smoke-free policies, and to launch six (6) publications (case studies and policy briefs) developed jointly by the HCC, PAHO and the UWI LHRU as part of the PAHO/HCC 2021 Letter of Agreement under the title: Accelerating progress towards a 100% Smoke-Free Caribbean by 2022. These Policy Briefs were developed as important tools to build capacity and assist countries in their efforts to put in place smoke-free policies.