Fight against tobacco

On May 31 of each year, the World Health Organization organizes a World No Tobacco Day. The goal? To encourage smokers to quit smoking by reminding them of the health…

The tobacco lobby is steadily losing ground on the international market and political stage. The ILO (International Labour Organisation), last of the United Nations organisation to have ties to the tobacco industry,…

The UK has launched Stoptober 6 years ago. This campaign promotes a month without tobacco. This year, the campaign goes even further. Public Health England has actually decided that it would recommand very explicitly vaping as an alternative to tobacco.

NHS Scotland, the Scottish National Health Agency, has declared for the first time that e-cigarettes are « definitely less harmful than tobacco ».

Over the first eight months of the year, e-cigarette sales have decreased by 0.7%. One brand has seen its sales rise by 3.4% and is resisting strongly any public health effort of the government. And this brand is Marlboro.

According to the study, « quit success is higher among those with at least 5 days use of e-cigarettes in the last month, and chances to stop smoking increase by 10% per additional day of e-cigarette use »