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Our Mission
The International Society for the Prevention of
Tobacco Induced Diseases is a registered, not-for-profit, academic,
scientific and humanitarian organization, fully independent from
any industrial, ideological, political or governmental group. The
Society is governed by a group of dedicated health professionals
from academia, located in different countries, all with background
knowledge and research experience in various areas of human health
hazards caused by tobacco use.
The Society’s aims are to:
- foster non-industrial scientific medical studies and/or any ethically and legally permissible effort that leads to a precise prevention of tobacco abuse, tobacco addiction, and tobacco-induced and/or -worsened diseases
- foster non-industrial scientific medical studies and/or any ethically and legally permissible effort that leads to a precise prevention of induced and/or -worsened diseases through involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke (passive smoking)
- facilitate communication and dissemination of knowledge among industrially-independent scientists involved in such studies as mentioned above
- promote and foster public health education, pre-school and school health education (all within the ethical, cultural and legal conditions of different areas) to enhance the human knowledge, from early childhood, about the actual hazards of tobacco use
- suggest health educational plans and/or preventive strategies to legislative or governmental bodies.
The Society is truly international and has three regional groups:
The Americas, Europe and Asia
(Click here to see contact information for the current Regional Directors)
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