Pakistan Must Follow Sweden’s Lead to Reduce Smoking Deaths
A newly released report, Tale of Two Nations: Pakistan vs. Sweden, warns that Pakistan risks missing a crucial opportunity to combat its smoking crisis, which claims 164,000 lives annually. The report, authored by global harm reduction expert Dr. Delon Human, contrasts Pakistan’s traditional tobacco control approach with Sweden’s harm reduction model, which has driven smoking […]
Oral Health for All: The Safer Alternative to Smoking You Need Now
Combustion, not nicotine, is the primary driver of smoking-related oral diseases and cancers. The report “Transforming Oral Health for All” underscores this distinction, advocating for smoke-free nicotine alternatives that eliminate the harmful byproducts of tobacco combustion.Products such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco have been shown to expose users to 90–95% fewer toxic substances compared to […]
Introduction to the Report: No Smoke, Less Harm
The severe negative impacts of tobacco use on societal health make the global development of innovative strategies to address these consequences crucial. In tobacco harm reduction, Sweden is a paradigm of success. This report examines the “No Smoke, Less Harm” approach by reviewing Sweden’s use of smoke-free alternatives and their contribution to Sweden’s improved health […]
Sweden Builds on an Already Successful Approach to Tobacco Control
1 November 2024 is the proposed effective date for Sweden’s reduced tax on alternative nicotine products. The 20% decrease in excise tax on snus and 9% increase in taxes on traditional cigarettes was confirmed in April 2024 to widespread commendation by international harm reduction experts. According to the official government announcement, the planned tax changes […]
Healthcare advocates encourage governments and policymakers to emulate Smoke-free Sweden
22 February 2024, Stockholm, Sweden – The World Health Organisation (WHO) recklessly ignored the Swedish success story during its Tenth Conference of the Parties on Tobacco Control (FCTC COP10), prompting public health professionals to demand the organisation implement a Swedish-style approach to fighting smoking. In light of the recent summit in Panama, healthcare researchers from […]
Insights from Sweden’s Smoke-Free Nation: An International Dialogue
Ahead of the Tenth Conference of Parties (FCTC COP10) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which will convene in Panama in November with representatives from all signatories, Smoke-Free Sweden embarked on a global outreach initiative to interact with global experts. Studying how adult smokers in Sweden have prevented millions of deaths was the aim. […]
International health experts: Bangladesh can be smoke-free by 2040 if it adopts the Swedish model
Prominent global health experts have issued an urgent plea to the legislative body of Bangladesh, strongly urging them to follow the ‘Smoke-Free Sweden‘ blueprint. This compelling strategy has the potential to dramatically alter the future for countless smokers, potentially saving millions of lives. At a recent event in Dhaka hosted by the Asia Harm Reduction […]
Sweden’s Gift to Global Public Health
With a smoking rate of only 5.6%, Sweden is set to become a smoke-free country in 2023 – a world first in public health. A country is considered officially smoke-free when less than 5% of the adult population smokes tobacco, according to the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP) and the World Health […]