Tobacco Control: Research, Prevention, Legislation, Human Rights

Abstract Between 2012–2018 the University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Tirgu Mureș in partnership with American, Hungarian and Romanian scientists from dozen institutions have launched a research entitled Building Capacity for Tobacco Research in Romania composed of seven complementary research studies. In our paper there are highlighted some timely and specific issues inside the research such as the possibility of computer-based online school prevention, smoking habits of residents and employees of social children’s institutions, the adaptation of a proper legislation and tobacco control, right to clean and smoking-free air. It remains very important the support for tobacco smoke-free, the maintenance of anti-smoking campaigns, the extension of prevention to the juvenile population in order to reduce smoking and the use of alternative tobacco products.