A paper asks the World Health Organization (WHO) to look at the successful Swedish experience of large-scale transition from cigarettes to smokeless alternatives to reduce smoking-related deaths globally.
The Institute for Tobacco Studies in Täby, Sweden released a topical paper urging the World Health Organization to look at the successful Swedish experience of large-scale transition from cigarettes to smokeless alternatives to reduce smoking-related deaths globally.Dr. Lars Ramström, the principal investigator of ITS, is a reputed researcher in tobacco control issues with numerous international engagements.
It says at the heart of the debate in Panama is the question of how the governments should deal with “novel and emerging tobacco and nicotine products”. The WHO’s view, largely reflected in FCTC COP10 reports and decisions, is that these products are a new danger to public health, threatening to undo decades of progress in fighting smoking.
Dr. Ramström says most “tobacco-related” deaths are in fact “smoking-related” deaths caused by repeated inhalation of smoke emitted when tobacco is lit on fire. The paper asks the WHO to closely study the experience of Sweden, Norway, Japan or New Zealand. “Norway is now following a similar trajectory as Sweden, with daily smoking being at record-low levels and virtually on the brink of extinction among some population groups, largely due to snus,” it says.
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