With #ME(S) SANS TOBACCO, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand Est wants to mark the occasion of this ninth edition. In a press release, she recalls the primary objective of the operation: that smokers can quit smoking via a website and an application. A “collective challenge” in particular for the “six out of ten daily smokers who want to stop smoking” according to figures from Public Health France.
In the Grand Est, in 2023, 11,663 smokers registered for the challenge, there were already 5,000 as of October 29, 2024 for this new edition (mois-sans-tabac-grandest.fr). And if the challenge is important, it is because the figures communicated by the region are too: In 2021, “it is estimated that the number of daily smokers in the Grand Est region in 2021 is 1,060,000, which represents 27% adults (18-75 years).” Another important data, “tobacco remains a strong social marker since the proportion of smokers is significantly higher among people with the lowest incomes (31.9% compared to 18.7% among people with the highest incomes) ; similarly smoking is more prevalent among those under 30 with a proportion of smokers exceeding 33% among 18-30 year olds.”
In Haute-Marne, a “No Tobacco Month” stand will also be set up all day on November 20 (9 p.m. – 5 p.m.) in the Carrefour shopping mall in Saint-Dizier – Bettancourt-la-Ferrée.
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