We recently celebrated World No Cigarette Day. We asked Minister Krzysztof Łanda during the 2nd Men's Health Congress whether we have the chance to have such a holiday - for health - on a daily basis. Global figures from the World Health Organization show that eight million people die each year from smoking. In Poland, although the number of nicotine addicts is decreasing every year, the problem still remains.... smoking.
What can Poles do to help them quit smoking?
Published June 2, 2023 16:00
We talk with Dr. Krzysztof Łanda, founder of the Watch Health Care Foundation and president of HTA FORMEDIS, about:
- ways that countries such as Sweden and the United Kingdom have reached for to effectively reduce the percentage of cigarette smokers
- The current situation of tobacco addiction in Poland and motivation to smoke
- European Union's anti-tobacco policy and tobacco directive, which should be based on EBM (the current directive cites observational studies from 2014 with low reliability)
