At a time when smoking cessation clinics are overwhelmed with requests, INPES is offering smokers a telephone service designed to help them quit. This article describes the service,...

Following the announcement of the Cancer Plan (January 2003), ambitious goals were set to reduce tobacco use. After the implementation of educational and regulatory measures, cigarette...

As part of the Cancer Plan, the National League Against Cancer (LNCC) and the National Committee Against Smoking (CNCT) joined forces in 2003 to analyze the extent and variety of...

This article presents the results of the health and substance use survey conducted annually by the French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) since 2000. The survey...

In 2000, the Ile-de-France Regional Health Observatory conducted a survey of the general adult population on perceptions of tobacco and its risks. This article presents one aspect of...

The Ministry of Health has entrusted the Smoke-Free Hospital Network with conducting the annual "Hospital Staff Smoking Barometer" survey, as required by the ministerial circular of...

These recommendations were developed by the Committee on Travel-Related and Imported Diseases and approved by the French High Council for Public Health at its meeting on May 14, 2004....

In New Caledonia, the number of HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed since 1986 stood at 260 as of August 2003, out of an estimated population of 215,000, comprising 44% Kanaks, 34% Europeans, 12%...

The Strasbourg International Vaccination and Travel Advisory Center sees approximately 7,000 people each year, 4,500 of whom come for a yellow fever vaccination. During a consultation,...

In France, the association Sida Info Service (SIS) has developed VIH Info Soignants (VIS), a service designed to listen to, inform, guide, and support healthcare workers (HCWs) dealing...