In 2005, Martin Raw <\/span>joined the scoring project of tobacco control policies. The objective was to repeat the collection of data, but to do it in a more systematic and scientific manner with the intention to have the methodology published in and approved by a scientific journal. In summer 2005<\/span>,<\/span> the questionnaire survey was repeated, this time with 30 European countries: the previous 28 plus two accession countries, Bulgaria<\/span>,<\/span> and Romania. Data were collected using the 2004 questionnaire, but stricter definitions were applied in the scale to smoke<\/span>-<\/span>free places and smoking treatment systems. The report was submitted by Luk Joossens and Martin Raw to the Tobacco Control journal which published the article in May 2006<\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n In 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 new editions of the Tobacco Control Scale were published under the auspices of the Association of European Cancer leagues. The results were presented each time at the European Conferences on Tobacco or Health (ECTOH) in Basel (2007), Amsterdam (2011), Istanbul (2014) and Porto (2017).<\/span> In 2019, Esteve Fernandez<\/a> and Ariadna Feliu<\/a>, tobacco control experts from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control of the Institut Català d’Oncologia joined Luk Joossens to conduct the 2019 and future editions of the scale. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n In December 2021, Smoke Free Partnership agreed to <\/span>oversee<\/span> and publish the T<\/span>obacco <\/span>C<\/span>ontrol <\/span>S<\/span>ca<\/span>le<\/span> in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>","hash":"a475a6ea23bcc8bbd44ef7515f47af24","css":"","js":""}