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AstraZeneke along with the Propulsion, social impact communication agency, launched the three-year campaign in smoking prevention among youth “MISSION: OXYGEN” through the series of workshops. First workshop – open discussion intended for health expert in smoking prevention was organized on February 7, 2019 in Belgrade. Representatives of the Association Health ...

Association “Health Mission” supported the initiative released by Bloomberg Philantropy STOP partnership and Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control which was forwarded to us by the Smoke Free Partnership to reject any partnership with the Foundation for a Smoke Free World. Initiative was signed by 119 organizations and 181 ...

American cancer society has published in January 2019 death rates from cancer and trends over the past 25 years. Since 1991 the death rates have declined 27% as to 2016, or 1.5% annually avoiding more than 2.6 million deaths. As it is stated in the report, the decline in cancer ...

Sweden is banning outdoor smoking in most public places, including playgrounds, outdoor restaurants and train station platforms.  The Riksdagen voted yesterday to extend the smoking ban, which currently applies to bars and restaurants, from July next year. Smoking is currently allowed in designated smoking areas in most workplaces and public ...

SFP Coallition Meeting, December 12, 2018   Youngsters to see no adds for tobacco products Save money for your vacation and health, NOT for PM and his industry Public places free of tobacco smoke Be a victm of your life, not a victim of tobacco industry. Don’t be a slave ...

Occupational cancer is a result of exposure to hazardous chemical, physical and biological agent (carcinogens) during the time. Occupational carcinogen is every chemical, physical and biological agents from workplace that increases the risk of malignant disease among the exposure workers. In 1775 Sir Percival Pott, one of the leading British ...

Why the Lung Cancer is Important? Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with 2.1 million new cases being diagnosed yearly. In Serbia, it is the most common cancer site among men (19.3%) and second among women (8.3%). Moreover, it is the leading cause of cancer deaths ...

Eight Conference of Parties of the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was held 1 – 6 October 2018 in Geneva with more than 1200 participants from 148 parties represented. At the opening ceremony Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Chief of Staff ...

This year, World Health Organization (WHO) chose that „Tobacco and Heart Diseases“ would be in the focus of the World No Tobacco Day 31 May 2018. The campaign will highlight the risks of tobacco use on cardiovascular disease of people worldwide as well as the measures that countries should undertake ...