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Tobacco Watcher launch!

June 05, 2019

The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns Hopkins University just launched Tobacco Watcher, an artificial intelligence system that keeps up on issues of tobacco control.

Tobacco Watcher scans articles, blogs and reports on the Internet; and the files for analysis.

What opportunities does this tool offer?

- Set up alerts on topics or activities that are relevant to your research
-To know what news is popular at regional, national and international level
- See how the media presents taxes on tobacco and other control measures.
-Monitor the success of the campaigns launched.

This tool scans more than 30,000 articles per day, in 16 different languages, making it a very useful surveillance tool to continue working for the health of millions of people.

To watch a tutorial video on the use of this system, enter here.