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Med. Pr. 2002;53(6)

The strategy for supporting anti-tobacco activities in Poland. Project on tobacco-free workplace

Strategia wspierania działań antytytoniowych w Polsce - projekt śMiejsce pracy wolne od dymu tytoniowegoś

Elżbieta Korzeniowska, Krzysztof Puchalski

Abstract

This paper presents basic information on the assumptions, goals and progress of the activities under the project śTobacco-free workplaceś implemented by the National Center for Workplace Health Promotion as a part of the śHealth and socio-economic policy aimed at the reduction of tobacco consumptionś, coordinated by the Epidemiology Division, M. Sklodowska-Curie Oncology Center, Warsaw. The main goal of the project, designed for the years 2000ś2005, is a gradual increase in the number of enterprises implementing health promotion programs aimed at supporting their employees to quit or reduce smoking. The National Center for Workplace Health Promotion and the National Network of Workplace Health Promotion Centers work together to convince employers thatthe implementation of anti-tobacco policy in their enterprises is cost-effective and helps to achieve the main goals of the enterprise. They also instruct occupational medicine specialists how to support enterprises, which intend to work out and introduce anti-tobacco policy.

Key words

tobacco-free workplace programs, smoking cessation among employees