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Lilia Olefir<\/h4>Smoke Free Partnership President<\/span>
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Lilia Olefir, the Director of the Smoke Free Partnership (SFP) and the EURO Regional Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control. The SFP Coalition includes over 50 organisations from all over Europe that work on EU policy analysis and advocacy, mobilizing decision makers to make tobacco control a political priority. Prior to joining SFP Lilia worked as Executive Director of Advocacy Centre \u201cLIFE\u201d, SFP Coalition partner. She helped to further build the leadership of \u201cLIFE\u201d in the European and global tobacco control arena. Lilia and Advocacy Center \u201cLIFE\u201d team conducted a successful advocacy tobacco tax campaign in 2017 by supporting the Government in the passage of the 7-year plan to increase specific excise on tobacco products by 20% annually and worked with policy champions on the comprehensive tobacco control bill that became that was adopted in 2021 closing loopholes in tobacco control legislation in Ukraine.\r\n\r\nSFP Main partners are the Belgian Foundation Against Cancer, Cancer Research UK, the Comit\u00e9 National contre le Tabagisme, the European Heart Network, the Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands, and the Norwegian Cancer Society. <\/p>