Tobacco-Free Generation:

“Independent and rigorous information for a world free of tobacco”

Generation Without Tobacco: our project

At the origin of 75,000 deaths per year in France, 9,500 in Switzerland, nearly 13,000 in Quebec and 15,000 in Belgium, tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable premature mortality in the world. Africa, which is still confronted with infectious diseases, is entering into its consumption with a coming explosion of mortality attributable to smoking.

At the same time, tobacco cultivation and trade are obstacles to sustainable development and a major factor in air, soil and water pollution. Finally, tobacco consumption is a factor and marker of poverty because it comes at the expense of more essential consumer goods and services.

To counter this industrial epidemic, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) describes and recommends measures whose effectiveness has been scientifically demonstrated to reduce tobacco consumption. Its article 4.7 emphasizes the role of civil society and article 12 on the importance of education, communication, training and public awareness.

Developed by the National Committee Against Smoking (CNCT), “Generation without Tobacco” is the first French-speaking platform for citizen mobilization against smoking.

In a world where information channels are readily used, with manipulated information, for commercial purposes, Génération Sans Tabac pursues a triple requirement: that of independence, transparency and scientific rigor.

This project is financially supported by the Anti-Tobacco Fund, now the Anti-Addiction Fund. It is carried out in partnership with Smoke-Free Partnership (SFP), the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), the Alliance for Tobacco Control in Africa and the Alliance Against Tobacco (ACT ). The project is supported thanks to the expertise of Thomas Laurenceau, former editor-in-chief of the Revue 60 millions de consommateurs and Professor Jacques Cornuz of the Vaudois University Hospital Center.

Various scientists were involved in this project:

Daouda Elhadj Adam: senior expert technical advisor for tobacco control at the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, representative of French-speaking Africa within the Alliance for the Framework Convention, N'Djamena Chad
Prof. Reto Auer: Bern Institute of Family Medicine (BIHAM) of the University of Bern and University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté), Lausanne
Professor Christian Ben Lakhdar, Professor of economics at the University of Lille II
Florence Berteletti-Kemp, Director for Advocacy, World Heart Federation
Pr Jacques Cornuz, University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté), Lausanne
Pascal Diethelm, President OxySuisse, Vice-President of the National Committee Against Smoking, founding member of the Alliance for the Framework Convention
Fabrice K. EBEH, PhD, Director of ANCE Togo, National Alliance of Consumers and the Environment, Lome
Dr Xavier Elharrar, Hospital Practitioner, Pays d’Aix Hospital Center
Anca Friedlaender-Toma, Director of the European coalition Smokefree Partnership, Brussels
Pr Karine Gallopel-Morvan University Professor (Social Marketing), School of Advanced Studies in Public Health, Honorary Professor, University of Stirling (Scotland);
Luk Joossens, Senior Expert in Tobacco Control for the Association of European Leagues Against Cancer and Smokefree Partnership, Brussels
Professor Loïc Josseran, University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (UVSQ), President of the Alliance Against Tobacco
Catherine Hill, Epidemiologist, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif
Dr Anne Laurence Le Faou, University Lecturer-Hospital Practitioner, Head of the Outpatient Addictology Center, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, APHP.Centre-University of Paris, President of the Francophone Society of Tabacology.
Professor Yves Martinet, Pr emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Nancy, President of the National Committee Against Smoking, President of Grand Est Sans Tabac, Honorary President Alliance Against Tobacco, President of the CHRU Ethics Committee, Nancy
Sylviane Ratte, Senior Expert, Director of the Vital Strategies European Regional Office, Paris
Dr Annie Sasco, Epidemiologist, Research Director, University of Bordeaux
Professor Daniel Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, Paris, Vice-President of the National Committee Against Smoking, Vice-President of the Alliance Against Tobacco
Dr Nathalie Wirth, Tobacco specialist, Tobacco Coordination Unit, CHRU, Nancy

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Generation Without Tobacco: our project

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