Health

Huge success for the protection of non-smokers: EU recommendation on smoke-free and aerosol-free environments

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03.12.2024 The EU Member States today adopted a far-reaching recommendation for smoke- and aerosol-free environments. It provides for effective protection of non-smokers not only indoors, but also in outdoor places where people gather in confined spaces. Pro Rauchfrei very much welcomes the fact that the EU Member States adopted a new recommendation on smoke-free and … Read more

Deadly and in part illegal: which products the city of Dortmund promotes with InterTabac

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Eine schwarze runde Messehalle mit der Aufschrift „InterTabac" und einem großen weißen Totenkopf an der Front.

10.09.2024 On 19 September, the InterTabac trade fair begins in Dortmund’s Westfalenhallen, run by a subsidiary of the city of Dortmund. Not only will tobacco, cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the like be promoted here but also nicotine pouches and snus which are not allowed to be marketed in Germany. The tobacco fair in Dortmund, which has … Read more

Rehabilitate the budget AND save lives in the process? Yes, we can!

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A pair of scales with a packet of cigarettes in the left pan, which is low to the ground, and banknotes and coins in the right pan, which is high to the ground: The costs of smoking far outweigh the tobacco tax revenue.

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