Half of Europe's workforce remain unprotected from secondhand smoke at work

Less than a third of the European Union’s Member States have introduced fully comprehensive smokefree legislation, three years after the world’s first public health treaty on tobacco control – the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) – introduced the need for protecting employees from the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke.

Today’s ‘Spotlight on the FCTC*’ reveals how only nine of the 25 EU Member States that have signed and ratified the WHO treaty have so far introduced comprehensive smokefree legislation – leaving over half of Europe’s workforce exposed to secondhand smoke. 

Spotlight on the framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)