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Stop smoking, the region launches the challenge with supporting figures

With #ME(S) SANS TOBACCO, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) 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 .

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-, 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.

N. F.

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