European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP)
The European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP) is an international nonprofit organization established in 1997 under Belgian law (registration number 16377/97).
Mission
ENSP’s mission is to develop a strategy for coordinated action among organizations active in tobacco control in Europe by sharing information and experience and through coordinated activities and joint projects. ENSP aims to create greater coherence among smoking prevention activities and to promote comprehensive tobacco control policies at both the national and European levels.
Objectives
ENSP’s top priority objectives are:
- to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (hereinafter referred to as “FCTC”) in Europe by 2020
- to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use in Europe to less than 5% by 2040.
ENSP is governed by a General Assembly composed of representatives from national coalitions against tobacco in Europe, representatives from specialized European tobacco control networks, and representatives from individual organizations active in tobacco control and/or health promotion. ENSP is administered by a regularly elected Executive Board, which delegates the day-to-day management and coordination of the network to a Secretariat in Brussels.
Vision
Our vision for the future is to eliminate health inequalities among European citizens and the suffering caused by poor health and premature death due to tobacco-related diseases. We want children and young people to be able to grow up without being targeted by messages that seek to lure them into a lifetime of addiction. We want all Europeans to be able to breathe clean air unpolluted by tobacco smoke. As we communicate more freely and cross national borders more frequently, we realize that our individual countries do not stand alone; we feel the reverberations of change throughout Europe. Therefore, we commit to using the best available evidence of effectiveness in policy and practice to work together toward our common goal.
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