[Tobacco control in France: what's new ?]
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Date publication
juin 2019
Journal
La Revue du praticien
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MARTINET Yves, Dr WIRTH Nathalie
Tous les auteurs :
Wirth N, Béguinot E, Martinet Y
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Résumé
French governments only very recently introduced comprehensive tobacco control policies including several measures recommended by WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, leading to a speeding-up of tobacco smoking decrease, but still with a high current level of use. In the meantime, research confirms that nicotine is highly addictive, that smoking just a cigarette a day is highly detrimental for health, and that health professionals are efficient in helping smokers to give up. These measures are such diverse as tobacco taxes increases, introducing plain packs, promoting November as month without tobacco, getting tobacco cessation medications paid for by health insurances, implementing a comprehensive advertising ban of tobacco products in retailor shops, and increasing protection of public health policies from tobacco industry intrusion. This industry via frenzied marketing reacts by promoting "heat not burn tobacco" as a harm reduction mean, which it is not, and invests in e-cigarettes, whose most recent ones are as addictive as classic tobacco cigarettes.
Mots clés
France, Tabacco control
Référence
Rev Prat. 2019 Jun;69(6):653-657