Tobacco control

„ Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use „If your product killed 8 million people each year, you’d also target a new generation“ This year the theme of World No Tobacco Day 2020 is protection of younger generations, protecting them from the campaigns of ...

„Don’t let tobacco take your breath away“ The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided that the focus of this year World No Tobacco Day is tobacco and its influence on lung health. Although the adverse effects on lung due to tobacco are well known, these diseases are still the leading ...

Each year, we remember World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to the society towards end TB as the global public health problem. TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer. Each ...

The Smoke Free Partnership (SFP) organized the Coalition Annual Meeting on December 12, 2018 in the premises of the Coalition in Brussels. The meeting was attended by representatives of organizations that are Coalition members from 20 European countries and the USA. The representative of the Health Mission, the only participant ...

Sharp increase in tobacco use among high school students caused a great concern in the United States threatening to erase decades of progress in tobacco control. For this increase in tobacco use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) vaping has been blamed, particularly Juul, a commercial product that is mostly sold in the ...

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 ...

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 ...