On the way to a tobacco- and nicotine-free Switzerland
The Swiss Association for Tobacco Control is the center of competence for tobacco prevention in Switzerland. As an umbrella organization for the promotion of non-smoking, it today comprises over 50 organizational members. AT Switzerland offers its members a broad network of experts and provides expertise on tobacco control and prevention. With evidence-based offers and the networking of the central actors, it is committed to a sustainably healthy and smoke-free Switzerland and at the same time offers the population a hand in quitting smoking and nicotine withdrawal.
An important field of action is the denormalization of the consumption of tobacco and nicotine products. This is because a large part of the population still regards the consumption of lethal tobacco and nicotine products as "normal". Furthermore, the protection of young people is at the center of its work and AT Switzerland would like to encourage smokers on their way to quitting smoking. Finally, AT Switzerland is very concerned to strengthen the protection of the population from passive smoke.
News and blog posts
17.01.2023
French-speaking cantons ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors
The canton of Jura recently introduced this measure and the Vaud government has come out in favour of banning the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes, known as "puff bars", to minors. Such a provision already exists in many other French-speaking cantons. At the national level, we still have to wait for the new Tobacco Products Act (TPA) to enter into force, unfortunately!
Learn more05.01.2023
New Zealand again at the forefront of tobacco control, Switzerland remains far behind
New Zealand last December passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking and reach a smoke-free generation.
Learn more20.12.2022
AT Blog - “Nicotine pouches save lives”: Just more data manipulation from the nicotine industry
The nicotine and tobacco industries are adapting manipulative tactics that they used for cigarettes to market their nicotine pouch products. In this article we propose to show how the argument of harm reduction is used in a context that can only serve tobacco industry interests and that goes against public health.
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