tobacco and smoking

"Living longer, better" - European Conference on Chronic Diseases - 11 May 2012.

On the 11 May, the European COPD Coalition organises a Conference on the EU reflection process on chronic diseases, entitled ’Living Longer, better’ - in parternship with EHN, ECCO, ERS and IDF Europe - EPHA members. Venue: Mundo B building, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1040 Brussels When: Friday 11 May (following the EU Health Policy Forum), from 10.00 to 16.00 including a lunch break (sandwich lunch is provided) Objective of the Conference: This will be a unique opportunity (...)

Revamped Health-EU Portal now online

The official public health portal of the European Union (Health-EU) has been revamped. The new design aims at attracting new visitors and at further raising awareness about public health issues. Following input received at the last EU-Health Portam Editorial Board meeting in November 2011, the new website aims to provide trustworthy information on public health. It contains six tabs that will be of interest to different categories of visitors including patients, health professionals and (...)

EPHA’s contributions to chronic diseases consultations

With two major launches, April was an remarkable month in terms of chronic diseases developments - the Commission’s Consultation on the EU Reflection Process on Chronic Dises; and the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on a comprehensive global monitoring framework. EPHA responded to both consultations. On 14 March 2012, the European Commission launched a Consultation on the EU Reflection Process on Chronic Disease aimed to gather initial inputs from stakeholders. (...)

Extend healthy life years by tackling chronic diseases in a life-course approach

The current prospects and hopes for a healthy and active ageing have been weakened by the incidence of chronic diseases reaching epidemic proportions. ’Never too early - Tackling chronic disease to extend healthy life years,’ a recently-launched report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, makes a case for preventing and tackling such diseases from childhood to ageing. Given today’s dominant EU paradigm -with an emphasis put on healthy ageing, including the European (...)

Press Release: Polish Ministry of Health refusal to comply with the pictorial warnings update to the Tobacco Products Directive shows lack of political will and commitment to smoking prevention

On the 7 March 2012 the European Commission adopted 14 new written health warnings to appear on tobacco products: the EU Member States have two years to update their own list of health warnings to appear on tobacco products. In his unprecedented move of 27 March however, the Polish Minister of Health Mr Bartosz Arłukowicz refused to mandate such an update and would like to wait until the European Union decides on the Revision of the Tobacco Product Directive. EPHA PRESS RELEASE Polish (...)

Launch of the ECC and Call to Action on COPD: Event report and invitation to sign the online petition

On Wednesday 21 March 2012, the Launch of European COPD Coalition and Call to Action on COPD took place at the European Parliament, and was hosted by MEP Glenis Willmott. COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. COPD is a long-term lung and airways disease that is not curable. A report of the meetingis available as well as a short video that was displayed at the event and that clearly presents the spectrum of the disease. Press Release: invisible COPD – Launch of ECC (...)

Sign up to support more action on COPD!

As a follow up to its launch in the European Parliament, the European COPD Coalition has launched a call for support to its call for action. People living in Europe, stakeholders can sign up to the Call and show that they believe the issue requires political action. Support the Call to Action Key facts and figures COPD the unknown disease The European COPD Coalition calls for action and support from the EU decision makers to help fight the disease and reduce its financial, social and (...)

One death every six seconds due to tobacco - WHO global report 2012

The World Health Organisation published a report providing information on the proportion of adult deaths due to tobacco. It shows that five million people died because of tobacco in 2004: one person every six seconds. It estimates that one billion people are projected to die during the 21st century unless strong actions are taken. WHO global report: mortality attributable to tobacco builds on the WHO’s 2009 report "Global health risks: mortality and burden of disease attributable to (...)

Fight against tobacco: new written health warnings adopted by the European Commission

The Commission recently adopted a series of 14 new written health warnings to appear on cigarette packages. This comes at a time when the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive represents one of the main public health challenges of the moment. . On 7 March 2012, the European Commission adopted a new set of 14 written health warnings] to appear on cigarettes packages in the future. These warnings have been chosen following on from a special Eurobarometer conducted to assess the (...)

Save the date - European COPD Coalition Launch

Wednesday, 21 March 2012 The discussion will run from 12:30 to 14:00 with a sandwich lunch served at 12:00 Hosted by Mrs Glenis Willmott MEP (S&D, UK) European Parliament, Brussels, Room 3G2 The European COPD Coalition kindly invites you to a lunch event in order to: Raise awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its alarming impact on populations and health systems, with key data, prevalence figures and examples of good practice actions that could be (...)