Young voices.Shared demands.A tobacco-free future.

Global Youth Voices is a global movement of youth organizations, coalitions, and advocates working together to protect young people from tobacco and nicotine industry harm and demand accountability from the companies responsible.
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A global youth movement for bold tobacco control

What is Global Youth Voices?

Global Youth Voices, or GYV, brings together youth organizations, coalitions, and advocates from different regions around a shared call for stronger tobacco control and tobacco industry accountability.

GYV connects young people across countries so that their experiences, evidence, and demands can be heard in the global policy spaces where decisions affecting their health and future are made.

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Why does GYV matter?

Young people remain a central target of the tobacco and nicotine industry. Flavors, attractive product designs, influencer promotion, digital marketing, and misleading claims about innovation and harm reduction are used to make addiction appear normal, modern, and harmless.

GYV helps young people respond collectively—not only by raising awareness, but by calling for laws, policies, and accountability measures that protect present and future generations.

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A group of young people standing together

Our Declaration

Young people are not just affected by these decisions—we are shaping what comes next. Our Declaration brings together the shared demands of young people around the world for a healthier, fairer, tobacco-free future.
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Protect young people

End industry practices, products, and promotions that create addiction and cause harm to young people.

Protect public policy

Keep tobacco control decisions free from tobacco industry interference and conflicts of interest.

Demand accountability

Hold tobacco companies financially and legally responsible for the health, social, environmental, and intergenerational harms they cause.

Include young people

Ensure that young people participate meaningfully and independently in decisions affecting their health and future.

One movement. Global reach.

GYV brings together diverse youth organizations, coalitions, and advocates while allowing each participating group to retain its own identity, experience, and area of expertise.
Together, we connect country and regional realities with a shared global call for bold action.
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Participating youth organizations and coalitions
75+
Countries covered by the youth participating organizations and coalitions.
135+

Youth voices and evidence of action

Young people from across the movement, in their own words, and the videos and art cards they have made for GYV campaigns.
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    Tobacco control is not just policy, it’s protecting our classmates from addiction.

    Youth advocate

    Asia-Pacific

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    When we speak together, governments have to listen and act on safer campuses.

    Youth advocate

    Africa

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    This movement is about young people demanding accountability from the industry.

    Youth advocate

    Latin America