Tobacco control

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 ...

Promotion of the book „Individual Smoking Cessation Program“, by the author Ika Pešić, PhD, Head of the Department for Smoking Prevention and Cessation from the Clinic for Pulmonology of the Clinical Centre of Serbia will be held on March 29, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, ...

This year the focus of the National No Tobacco Day is exposure to tobacco smoke „Adult smokers make me breathe heavily“. Environmental tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, among them 70 are carcinogens. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS), and each year more ...

Tobacco industry has recently introduced a new product “heat-not-burn” tobacco product claiming that it is much less harmful than conventional cigarettes and therefore more convenient to customers. Battery powered device, usually resembling the cigarette, heats specially prepared tobacco up to 350oC compared to 600oC in conventional cigarettes producing inhalable aerosol. ...

Waterpipe (hookah, narghile, shisha, etc.) use is long-standing and has been used for almost five centuries in Egypt, Turkey, Persia and India. Introduction of flavored tobacco in 1990s significantly increased the use of waterpipes among youth, first in the Middle East and later in other countries and continents, mostly at ...

As the Association Health Mission has been a member of the Smoke Free Partnership (SFP) Coalition since June 1st, 2017, the President of the Association, Nataša Lazarević, took part at the Annual Meeting of the SFP Coalition on 27th and 28th June 2017. The first day of the Annual Meeting ...

Tobacco kills almost 7 million people every year, 6 million because of direct tobacco use, and around 890 000 nonsmokers exposed to second hand smoke. Today, according to the World Health organization more than a billion people worldwide smoke, among them 80% are from low- and middle-income countries. It is ...

Being a member of the Coalition Smoke Free Partnership, representative of the Association „Health Mission“ Srmena Krstev participated at its extraordinary meeting, on 28 and 29 November 2017, devoted to the priorities in 2018-2021. The meeting took place at the SFP premises in Brussels. Florance Bertteletti, the President of the ...

According to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) tobacco control means a range of measures and activities that reduce supply and demand of tobacco products, as well as health consequences of their use that aim to improve the health of population by eliminating or reducing ...