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
The cantonal laboratory has issued a sales ban for one out of every two e-cigarettes
The Basel-City cantonal laboratory analysed 32 samples of disposable e-cigarettes and e-liquids, finding that 29 of them showed at least one violation. A sales ban was immediately imposed on 21 products. The Swiss Association for Tobacco Control is demanding that further measures be taken without delay.
New Global Report Shows Switzerland’s Cigarette Warnings Lag a Decade Behind the Rest of the World
Tobacco packaging has long been one of the industry’s most powerful marketing weapons — a miniature billboard that travels everywhere a smoker goes. When traditional advertising was banned from television, billboards, and sports sponsorships, tobacco companies shifted their creativity and budgets to the pack itself, transforming it into a seductive tool for branding, social aspiration, and denial of harm.
The Federal Council recommends ratifying the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
The Federal Council has announced today that it supports the adoption of the parliamentary motion calling for Switzerland to finally ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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.
