About SCOHRE
Stepping up the efforts towards
a new broader approach to smoking control policies
About SCOHRE
Stepping up the efforts towards a new broader approach to smoking control policies
Eight million people die prematurely every year from smoking-related diseases despite all efforts to control the smoking habit. We know the harmful health effects of smoking for decades, but still more than 1 billion people globally smoke, and the total number of smokers is still growing. In the EU alone, tobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of cancer mortality, with 27% of all cancer deaths linked to smoking. If we eliminate the use of smoking, we may even be able to avoid as much as 90% of all lung cancers.
Eight million people die prematurely every year from smoking-related diseases despite all efforts to control the smoking habit. We know the harmful health effects of smoking for decades, but still more than 1 billion people globally smoke, and the total number of smokers is still growing. In the EU alone, tobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of cancer mortality, with 27% of all cancer deaths linked to smoking. If we eliminate the use of smoking, we may even be able to avoid as much as 90% of all lung cancers.
We, at SCOHRE, believe that smoking control strategies should be reshaped to include harm reduction through alternative potentially lower risk products use, besides the traditional smoking cessation and smoking prevention measures.
SCOHRE includes scientists from all sectors: basic science researchers, medical doctors, policy experts, behaviourists, legal experts, academics, and professionals, human rights advocates…
Our purpose is to provide stakeholders with science-based balanced information. Tobacco harm reduction debate is still at an early stage and more research and publications are needed.
We will work to better inform all stakeholders of the existing evidence corroborating that harm reduction in smoking should be implemented to counterfeit the detrimental effects of smoking, when smoking cessation fails or is not sought.
We need to raise awareness on existing knowledge, benefit from already existing solid expertise in many countries, and create more opportunities for education of health policy experts, regulators, and the public.
We will work to generate more evidence that harm reduction in smoking should be implemented along with smoking prevention and smoking cessation to counterfeit the detrimental effects of smoking.
We will establish new research to generate more evidence to cast out all doubt.
We, at SCOHRE, believe that smoking control strategies should be reshaped to include harm reduction through alternative potentially lower risk products use, besides the traditional smoking cessation and smoking prevention measures.
SCOHRE includes scientists from all sectors: basic science researchers, medical doctors, policy experts, behaviourists, legal experts, academics, and professionals, human rights advocates…
Our purpose is to provide stakeholders with science-based balanced information. Tobacco harm reduction debate is still at an early stage and more research and publications are needed.
We will work to better inform all stakeholders of the existing evidence corroborating that harm reduction in smoking should be implemented to counterfeit the detrimental effects of smoking, when smoking cessation fails or is not sought.
We need to raise awareness on existing knowledge, benefit from already existing solid expertise in many countries, and create more opportunities for education of health policy experts, regulators, and the public.
We will work to generate more evidence that harm reduction in smoking should be implemented along with smoking prevention and smoking cessation to counterfeit the detrimental effects of smoking.
We will establish new research to generate more evidence to cast out all doubt.
