On the way to a tobacco and nicotine-free Switzerland

The Swiss Tobacco Prevention Association is the competence center for tobacco prevention in Switzerland. As an umbrella organization for the promotion of non-smoking, it currently has over 50 collective members. AT Switzerland offers its members a broad network of experts and provides specialist knowledge on tobacco control and prevention.

It is committed to a sustainably healthy and smoke-free Switzerland with evidence-based services and the networking of key players, while at the same time offering the population a helping hand in quitting smoking and nicotine withdrawal.

News and blog posts

05.08.2025 Media releases

UN must ban cigarette filters – Swiss NGOs put on pressure

(Bern/ Genf) - Im August 2025 treffen sich Staaten aus aller Welt in Genf, um bei der zweiten Sitzung der fünften Verhandlungsrunde (INC-5.2) einen internationalen Vertrag gegen Plastikverschmutzung auszuarbeiten. Nach schwierigen Debatten im November 2024 in Busan, Südkorea, soll dieses Treffen einen endgültigen Vertragstext hervorbringen. Ein oft übersehener, aber gewaltiger Teil dieses Problems: Zigarettenstummel. Die hier unterzeichnenden Organisationen fordern hiermit ein Verbot von umweltschädlichen Zigarettenfiltern.

23.07.2025 News

The PATHS survey

The PATHS survey (Perspectives, Attitudes, and behaviours Towards Health and Smoking) is part of a research project on health, smoking, and migration in Switzerland.

21.07.2025 News | Blog

How Sweden Became a Smoke-Free Success Story

Sweden is on the verge of becoming the first European country to be considered “smoke-free” – with only 5.4% daily smokers. However, while smoking is on the decline, tobacco and nicotine use remains present.

from Angeliki Balantani and Małgorzata Posoch-Gueneau de Mussy

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and tobacco