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
British American Tobacco sued in the U.S. over alleged role in financing terrorism via North Korea
British American Tobacco (BAT) is facing a major civil lawsuit in the United States, brought by hundreds of U.S. military personnel, civilians and their families, who accuse the tobacco multinational of having indirectly helped finance terrorism through its past business activities in North Korea.
2026: Europe raises taxes on tobacco and nicotine. Switzerland looks the other way.
In January 2026, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a renewed and clear call for strengthening taxation on tobacco products, recalling that taxation remains one of the most effective public health levers.
from Luciano Ruggia
Taxation of tobacco products: the Federal Council's flawed approach
In Switzerland, the taxation of tobacco products is a veritable mess: each product category is taxed very differently, without any coherent public health rationale, and with significant disparities that create market distortions.
from Luciano Ruggia
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.
