- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level;
- Disseminate tobacco control measures contained in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
- Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people;
- Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level;
- Describe the tobacco industrys opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions;
- Present the most successful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas;
- Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends to comprehensive tobacco control.