Smoke Free Cambodian Communities (SFCC)

Project Goals

To work with Buddhist monks and others to create a sustainable tobacco control movement within Cambodian communities that promotes, supports and implements tobacco free lives and policies.

To build on the partnerships established through ADRA’s TOH program, including the SFBM project, to engage a wider variety and number of influential partners in tobacco control at local and central level.

Project Objectives

To increase Buddhist Monks’ and community action to minimize tobacco use, this project aims to:

Actively engage government and NGO partners in tobacco control activities and discussions about tobacco control policy that will complement the ADRA TOH program and the National Action Plan for Tobacco Control.

Cooperate with the Ministry of Cults and Religion, Ministry of Health and influential Buddhist monks to apply Buddhist precepts to tobacco control.

Increase awareness among monks and their communities throughout Cambodia of the harmful effects of tobacco and the benefits of smoke-free policies.

Increase the spread of smoking cessation interventions, especially via trained, non-smoking monks, that allows them to act as positive role models and support the implementation of smoke free policies.