Six organizations form Health Professionals against Tobacco:

Health Professionals against Tobacco work together to promote a tobacco-free Sweden by:

• Monitoring and influencing  the political tobacco control process  
• Increasing awareness, knowledge and tobacco-free behaviours within own professions
• Creating information material
• Supporting local tobacco control initiatives  
• Engaging in international co-operation  

Health professionals are important role models and are considered by the public as credible sources of health information.

What's New

	NEW: Shadow Report on Sweden's progress implementing the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.  In Swedish Written by the Swedish Network for Tobacco Prevention.
	Health Professionals against Tobacco hosted a training day for university students named ”Can we butt out the Tobacco Issue?”.  For the first time a comprehensive tobacco control has been offered to students of a wide variety of health professional backgrounds.  Read more
	The next issue of Tobak eller Hälsa (Tobacco or Health) is now available.  The feature is on the Framework Convention c Tobacco Control and Sweden. Download Issue
	Health Professionals against Tobacco hosted an exhibit in the Swedish Parliament building from 18-22 February, 2008.  On the top of the agenda was information about the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Download Poster (in Swedish) View Photos from Event. Read more
	Nurses against Tobacco, Sweden raised the profile for treating tobacco use within nursing care at the International Council of Nurses conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  Read more

EC scientific committee concludes that smokeless tobacco products are addictive and hazardous to health.  The Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) in its opinion on smokeless tobacco products addressed their health effects and addiction potential. Smokeless tobacco products contain various levels of toxic substances and these products are carcinogenic to humans (19 February 2008).  Read the report

	The Swedish National Tobacco Control Conference will take place from   the 6-7 May in Örebro Sweden.  View the official website.
	Report summarizing main findings of the European Commission's consultation for the Green Paper: Towards a Europe Free from Tobacco Smoke is now available.  Read the contribution by Health Professionals against Tobacco during the consultation period.

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