2021 Hybrid Edition
On 12 and 13 December, ENSP members, partners, and friends have gathered in person and online for another annual European Conference on Tobacco Control, held in Paris, France. During two full days, members discussed the future strategy of the organisation, as well as took part in multiple sessions where high-level speakers and experts presented the results of their projects and activities, with the ultimate goal to advance tobacco control research and find new solutions for a tobacco-free world.
For this hybrid onsite/online edition a great number of speakers, delegates, and volunteers contributed to the success of the event. The sessions covered topics such as tobacco industry interference, the EU SUP Directive, taxation, tobacco and alcohol, novel products, and journalistic investigations on the tobacco industry tactics.
The 6th Conference was opened by the ENSP President, Dr. Francisco Rodriguez Lozano, along with the Head of Secretariat of the WHO FCTC, Dr Adriana Blanco Marquizo, who congratulated ENSP and its members for their accomplishments and thanked everyone for their involvement in the promotion of the Convention and the Protocol in Europe, as well as for the knowledge and experience shared with the global network.
“ENSP was granted observer status to the Conference of the Parties of the Convention (…) and it has been playing an active role in promoting the implementation of the Convention for more than a decade.”
Head of Secretariat of the WHO FCTC, Dr Adriana Blanco Marquizo, during the welcoming speech for the opening of the ENSP-ECTC in Paris.
During the event, ENSP Secretary General, Cornel Radu-Loghin, presented ENSP awards to OCCRP journalists Alessia Cerantola and Andrei Ciurcanu for their tremendous work on exposing big tobacco strategies, as well as a special award remembering the Network’s member and friend Konstantin Krasovsky, to serve as recognition of his efforts to strengthen tobacco control community and improve public health in Ukraine and beyond.
A special session dedicated to ENSP Youth Group was also organised during the event, with the aim of combining advocacy and scientific approach to changing youth’s attitudes to tobacco and smoking behaviour of young people in Europe. Experts from the tobacco control community shared their experience in shaping smoke-free initiatives and further one of the top researchers on the topic, Dr Constantine Vardavas, held a special training targeting early-stage researchers on how to write a research paper.
The online edition of the 6th Conference of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention came to an end with the publication of the Supplement/2021 vol.7 in the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Journal. This Abstract Book includes accepted submissions received under the themes of Taxation; Tobacco / Smoking / Vaping & COVID-19; novel tobacco products; Endgame strategies; EU-Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU); environment; Cancer, and the following WHO-FCTC Articles: Art. 5.3, Art. 6, Art. 7, Art. 8, Art. 9, Art. 11, Art. 12, Art. 14, Art. 15, Art. 16, Art. 17, Art. 18, Art. 20 and Art. 22.
6th Conference of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention Supplement/2021
- Evaluating health and economic impact of tobacco control law in Georgia
- Constitutionality of local tobacco regulation: An analysis of the case of Philippine Tobacco Institute vs city of Balanga
- An unhealthy relationship: Bulgarian young people’s attitudes to using tobacco products
- Corporate tax revenue losses: Evidence from tobacco transnationals
- The tobacco industry supply chain database: Who supplies the tobacco industry
- Tobacco excise duties in Belgium: A small country but cheap for tobacco products. Proposal from the Belgian Alliance for a smoke-free society to increase tobacco excise duties
- Smoking inside is never okay: Strengths and limitations of mass media campaigns to protect children against secondhand and thirdhand smoke
- Exposure to secondhand aerosol from electronic cigarettes at homes: A real-life study in four European countries
- How proactive are smokers in Greece with their health?
- Profiling smokers in Greece in 2020
- Strategy for a Tobacco-Free Germany 2040
- The UK Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2020/2021: An assessment of the implementation of WHO FCTC Article 5.3 in the United Kingdom
- Results of We Can Quit2: A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a community-based stop-smoking intervention for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland
- A process evaluation of We Can Quit: A stop-smoking programme for women living in socio-disadvantaged areas in Ireland>
- The We Can Quit2 trial knowledge exchange and dissemination plan: Future research and policy priorities from a community perspective
- Adolescent behavioural response to an increase of tobacco prices
- United States 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index: The US Implementation of Article 5.3 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2020 Versus 2019
- Illicit cigarettes in Ethiopia
- Impact of tax and price reforms on companies’ price decisions in the complex cigarette tax system of Indonesia
- The pass-thru of excise to consumer prices of heated-not-burn tobacco (HTP) products and cigarettes: A cross-country evidence
- Slovenian Coalition for Public Health, Environment and Tobacco Control: 17 years of experience of smoking cessation and counselling with the support of ENSP and Slovenian Ministry of Health
- The Danish model for smoking cessation
- How sex, age and education determine the potential impact of mass media campaigns: Results of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Project
- Trend analyses of teenage e-cigarette use in Ireland (2015-2019) show higher use for boys but more rapid increase for girls
- Modifying teenage e-cigarette use: Variables identified through a logistic regression analysis of e-cigarette ever-use
- Youth access to tobacco products in Armenia
- Public attitude towards tobacco taxation policy in Armenia
- Tobacco industry interference in Guatemala
- Blended care for smoking cessation support in Dutch GP practices”
- Tobacco, human rights, and environmental due diligence
- Tobacco Industry Interference and public tobacco control policies during COVID-19 in Argentina: Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021
- Onko application: Contents for smoking cessation
- Cigarette price increases, advertising ban, and pictorial warnings as determinants of youth smoking initiation in Poland
- The COVID-19 crisis: An opportunity for the tobacco industry or for tobacco control?
- Mexico 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference INDEX
- Confronting tobacco industry attacks against tobacco control advocates: Case studies and strategic responses. Panel presentations followed by a discussion
- Impact of a brief tobacco cessation training programme on the practices of healthcare professionals
- Tobacco industry: How they “survived” in COVID-19 pandemic period
- Provision of tobacco cessation support: A comparative study of five different WHO European Region countries
- Questioning the sex-specific differences in the association of smoking on the survival rate of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
- Cigarette and e‐cigarettes dual users, exclusive users and COVID‐19
- Tobacco industry tactics against tobacco flavour bans in Europe with a focus on the UK and Poland
- Menthol smokers’ behavioural responses to the European Union ban on menthol: Findings from Wave 2 of the ITC Netherlands Survey with New Cohort
- The impact of Canada’s Menthol Cigarette Ban on quitting among menthol smokers and projections of impact in the European Union: Findings from the ITC Project
- Health beliefs, smoking behaviours and attitudes towards the tobacco flavor ban among smokers of menthol, other flavored and unflavored cigarettes: Findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys
- Smokers’ support for the ban on sale of slim cigarettes
- For a tobacco-free Slovenia 2040: With support of NGOs
- 5 years’ experience of the Quitline in Hungary: Where do we go next?
- Illicit trade of cigarettes and HTPs in Ukraine
- Trends in cigarette affordability and taxation in nine Balkan countries
- Revision of policies on tobacco and other nicotine-containing products, smoking cessation in the Russian Federation and the Eurasian Economic Union
- Raising awareness is not overrated
- Symposium: Tobacco industry interference in Europe
- Do the subsequent waves of the pandemic scare Polish smokers the same?
- Changes in smoking behaviour due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
- Health or money, that’s the dilemma: Opinions on increasing the taxation of tobacco products in a sample of university students from humanistic and scientific faculties
- Mobile apps and artificial intelligence (AI) based tools for analysis, prediction and prevention of tobacco and alcohol relapse: A review of past and current market
- Tobacco cessation help in the dental healthcare setting of Turkey
- The challenges in the deployment of a legal ban on tobacco advertisement on the example of Poland
- Quitting tobacco awareness social media campaign: Health promotion interventions should be focused on young females
- Create a profile to intervene and help, studying the demographic characteristics of smokers within a university population
- Use of Heated Tobacco Products (HTP) among university students: Misconceptions and motivations to start smoking
- The case for requiring warnings directly on individual cigarettes
- Patterns of e-cigarette, conventional cigarettes and dual use among Spanish adolescents: A national study
- Knowledge, attitudes, and training in tobacco control among dental students in a public dental school in Catalonia
- Changes in electronic cigarette use and label awareness among smokers before and after the European Tobacco Products Directive implementation in six European countries: Findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys
- Confronting tobacco industry attacks against tobacco control advocates: Case studies and strategic responses; panel presentations followed by a discussion
- The importance of school intervention programmes in promoting health literacy and healthy lifestyles
- Change of smoking patterns in Serbia during Covid19
- The COVID-19 pandemic and tobacco use among young population: A scoping review