Webinar “Towards a Smoke-Free World”

Wednesday, July 5th, 2023, 15:00-16:30 CEST

Organised by SCOHRE, the International Association on Smoking Control & Harm Reduction

The scope of the webinar is to present and discuss different approaches towards a Smoke Free environment. The goal of mitigation of smoking conventional cigarettes and the potential reduced harm of novel tobacco products through 3 different tools: public health, taxation and EU policy making.

Panelists would present potential of reduced risk products for the Public Health, fiscal tools to tackle the spread of Smoking and new policy making approaches in the EU.

AGENDA

15:00 CEST: Start of the webinar

Moderator: Ioannis Faropoulos

• Are European policies in line with the goal set for a Smoke-Free Europe? – Karl Erik Lund
• Holistic approach in public health. How can we complement our public health strategies to reach a Smoke-Free World? – Theoklis Zaoutis
• How fiscal tools can contribute to tackling the spread of smoking towards a Smoke-Free World? – Andrzej Fal
• Better informed citizens and more data needed to drive behavioural change – Daphne Kaitelidou

Panel discussion

16:30 CEST: End of the webinar

Webinar moderator

Faropoulos Ioannis, Chief Executive Officer Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO)

Webinar panelists

Fal Andrzej, President, Polish Society of Public Health; Head, Department of Allergy, Lung Diseases & Internal Medicine, Central Clinical Hospital, Ministry of Interior; Director, Institute of Medical Science, UKSW, Poland

Kaitelidou Daphne, Professor/Department of Nursing, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, President of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Health (ODIPY)

Lund Karl Erik, SCOHRE Vice-President, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway

Zaoutis Theoklis, President of the National Public Health Organization of Greece

For more information and free registration, visit the platform (in order to participate in the webinar, you need to register).