Prevention policy: good news and bad news from France
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Eur J Public Health. 2020, vol. 30, n° 2, p. 206
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For the second year, the number of smokers in France is falling. The results are obvious: 1.6 million fewer smokers between 2016 and 2018, the prevalence of daily smoking among adults fell from 29.4% to 25.4% over this ...Read more >
For the second year, the number of smokers in France is falling. The results are obvious: 1.6 million fewer smokers between 2016 and 2018, the prevalence of daily smoking among adults fell from 29.4% to 25.4% over this period.1 This dramatic change is the result of an ambitious and structured national policy: the National Tobacco Reduction Programme, launched in 2014, followed and strengthened by a National Tobacco Control Programme, launched in 2018 and strongly supported by the Minister of Health. This programme includes 28 actions covering all levels of health promotion, including measures that are known to be very effective, such as increasing the price of tobacco products...Read less <
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