About Us
The TCRC works in partnership with national medical associations across Europe, supporting them in their efforts to inform their members, help patients and promote evidence based policies with respect to tobacco. It also acts a resource for individual doctors who are interested or involved in tobacco control.

Although the main focus of the TCRC is the European medical profession, much of its work is also relevant to health workers and tobacco control advocates throughout the world.

Development of TCRC
The Centre was established in 1997 by the European Forum Medical Associations (EFMA). The TCRC is funded by the Europe Against Cancer Programme of the European Commission and the British Medical Association, and receives other support from national medical associations and from WHO.

Tobacco is the single greatest preventable cause of illness and death in Europe. The TCRC's evidence to these hearings is motivated by both European medical professionals-firsthand knowledge of the human misery and suffering caused by tobacco, and their ethical responsibility to act to protect their patients and improve the public health.

The TCRC's main partners are 59 national medical associations across the 51 member states of the WHO European Region. These associations represent almost 2 million doctors across the Region - more than 60% of the European medical profession.

The TCRC's mission is to help realise the enormous potential of doctors in tobacco control, by:

• promoting tobacco control
  
• supporting national medical associations in their tobacco control activities
  
• providing an information database
  
• encouraging doctors to stop smoking
  
• improving doctors' skills in smoking cessation
  

• compiling an information database on tobacco
  
• commissioning and publishing materials especially designed for the medical profession
  
• co-ordinating a Europe-wide study of doctors' smoking habits and monitoring the tobacco control activities of EFMA member associations
  
• organising tobacco control workshops