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
50 mg/ml of nicotine in just a few clicks: Europe and the parallel market for non-compliant e-cigarettes
After Switzerland, our investigation continues across Europe. Within just a few hours, AT Switzerland identified dozens of online shops offering e-cigarettes containing up to 5% nicotine – 2.5 times the European limit. Some of these products are even advertised as already being stocked within the European Union.
Discover the second part of our investigation
150,000 puffs — and still one step ahead of regulation
E-cigarettes claiming up to 150,000 puffs and nicotine concentrations exceeding legal limits are now available online in Switzerland. Test purchases carried out by AT Switzerland highlight the challenges facing regulation and market surveillance as these products continue to evolve at an ever-increasing pace.
Nicotine vending machines: a structural failure in age verification
Protecting minors is one of the primary objectives of the Federal Act on Tobacco Products and Electronic Cigarettes (LPTab). Yet, sales via vending machines continue to pose a major challenge to achieving this goal.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and tobacco
Protection from second-hand smoke from your fellow human beings
Die Forderung nach rauchfreien Innenräumen stützt sich ab auf eindeutige Fakten von Gesundheitsschäden, verursacht durch Passivrauchen. Auch in der Schweiz haben wissenschaftliche Forschungen die positiven Folgen eines gesetzlichen Schutzes vor Passivrauchen für die Gesundheit nachgewiesen.
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Current issues
Info sheet nicotine
Nicotine is a highly addictive psychoactive substance. It is traditionally contained in finely ground tobacco leaves (cigarettes, cigars and snus) and more recently also in liquid form in e-cigarettes.
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)
Electronic cigarettes (also known as ‘e-cigarettes’ or vapes) are handheld electronic devices that mimic the effects of a tobacco cigarette but contain no tobacco and create inhalable aerosols by electronically heating an e-liquid.
Volkswirtschaftliche Kosten des Rauchens
Durch den Konsum von Tabak entstehen hierzulande jährlich volkswirtschaftliche Kosten in Milliardenhöhe. Neben direkten tabakbedingten Kosten im Gesundheitswesen, die sich auf rund 3 Milliarden Franken belaufen, entstehen indirekte Kosten für die Wirtschaft aufgrund von Produktivitätsverlusten von zusätzlichen 3,1 Milliarden Schweizer Franken.
