Los datos, publicados hoy por la agencia de salud pública de Suecia, muestran que solo el 4,5% de los adultos nacidos en Suecia fuman, muy por debajo del punto de referencia globalmente reconocido del 5% para lograr el estatus de país libre de humo.
El estudio, publicado en la revista científica The Lancet, muestra que reducir los niveles de tabaquismo a menos del cinco por ciento (cuando un país puede ser declarado oficialmente "libre de humo") aumentaría la esperanza de vida global en un año para los hombres y en 0.2 años para las mujeres.
Las tasas de tabaquismo en Nueva Zelanda están a punto de caer por debajo del 5%, lo que la coloca al borde de ser declarada oficialmente "libre de humo".
That headline isn’t a rhetorical question: it was what we were genuinely thinking after we watched a YouTube replay of a conference call organised by the European Cancer League.
Legalising vapes in Mexico could save 106,000 deaths from smoking in the next 25 years, a new study has found.
An anti-vaping professor has made a shock admission at a public inquiry that the only known deaths from vapes are from the batteries exploding.
Researchers at Vape Superstore found that smokers in the UK spend £2,366 a year on cigarettes - over THREE TIMES as much as those who use a vaping kit.
MPs in the UK have backed a plan to ban anyone born after 2009 from ever buying cigarettes, effectively ensuring it will become law.
Vapers are being urged to send a submission to the Senate Vaping Inquiry in Australia to oppose a new national vape ban.
The article in scientific journal The Lancet - published ahead of crunch COP10 talks next week - calls on the WHO to recognise the central part vapes and similar products can play in reducing tobacco use.
