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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vardavas, Constantine I
• Kyriakos, Christina N
• McNeill, Ann
• Fong, Geoffrey T

Titel

Evaluating the impact of the Tobacco Products Directive within the context of the FCTC in Europe—findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys: introductory Commentary

Ist Teil von

• European journal of public health, 2020-07, Vol.30 (Supplement_3), p.iii1-iii3

Ort / Verlag

England: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Tobacco use is the single most significant cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the European Union (EU), attributable to 700 000 deaths annually.1,2 The largest population-level efforts to reduce tobacco use in the EU include the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)3 and the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).2 Implementation of the revised TPD, in which EU Member States were required to transpose into National law by May 2016,2 offered a unique window of opportunity to evaluate the impact of its provisions. The aim of the Horizon 2020 project entitled, European Regulatory Science on Tobacco: Policy Implementation to Reduce Lung Disease (EUREST-PLUS), was to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the TPD within the context of the WHO FCTC at the EU level.4 A primary component of the EUREST-PLUS Project was the creation of an International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project 2-wave cohort of ∼6000 adult smokers from six EU countries: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain—the ITC 6 European Country (6E) Surveys.5 The aim of the 6E cohort surveys was to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioural impact of the implementation of the EU TPD Articles, with an assessment before6–20 and after the TPD. The strong methodological approach of the ITC Project further allowed for comparable cross-country analyses with the addition of two other ITC cohort studies involving European countries—England, as part of the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey, and the ITC Netherlands Survey.