20.08.2024 The current tobacco tax policy in Germany is – to put it mildly – suboptimal. Smoking costs the healthcare system and the economy 97 billion euros a year. More than 30 billion of these costs arise from the treatment, care and rehabilitation of smokers and people who fall ill as a result of passive … Read more
05.07.2024 Not marketable, not safe for children, nicotine content not correctly stated, no package leaflet, no warnings available or incomplete – these test results for disposable e-cigarettes make you sit up and take notice. In 2022, single-use e-cigarettes (disposables) were tested in the laboratories of eight federal states as part of official controls: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, … Read more
01.04.2024 Pro Rauchfrei calls on the federal states to improve non-smoker protection on the occasion of cannabis legalisation. The legalisation of cannabis on 1 April 2024 makes it necessary to revise the non-smoker protection laws of the federal states. As with tobacco, the federal government has only rudimentarily regulated non-smoker protection against cannabis and has … Read more