About us
We are an NGO committed with the Transparency and Truth project to a society free from tobacco and nicotine addiction, their harmful consequences, and the actions of the industry.
Our Missions
Knowledge
Investigate, document, and analyze the actions of the tobacco industry.
Communication
Share this knowledge with the general public, the media, politicians, and other decision-makers.
Action
Take political and legal action to counter the tobacco industry's activities, while supporting academic research in order to restore the truth where this industry strives to manipulate it.
Our goal is to prioritize public health by fighting against the commercial interests of tobacco. To achieve this, our mission is based on three pillars: knowledge, communication, and action.
Oxysuisse is guided by the WHO Framework Convention and international best practices in tobacco control, with an approach focused on the commercial determinants of health, as a complement to behavioral prevention.
To find out more about OxySuisse, please consult our articles or our latest annual reports.
Our Values
Commitment
We act with determination, remaining out of reach of the intimidation tactics of the tobacco industry and its allies.
Respect
We are guided by the respect for human rights.
Solidarity
We stand in solidarity with the direct and indirect victims of the tobacco and nicotine industry.
Cooperation
Our work is based on sharing knowledge, mutual assistance, support, coordination, and collaboration with national and international actors, including across disciplines.
Integrity
We are committed to upholding the principles of scientific integrity.
Defense of the public interest
We fight to ensure that public health and environmental interests take precedence over economic and private interests, in accordance with the principle of proportionality.
History
2022
Launch of the “Transparency and Truth” initiative in collaboration with the Tobacco Prevention Fund
2017
OxySuisse expands nationwide
2004
OxyGenève becomes OxyRomandie
2000
OxyGenève is founded
Committee
Pascal Diethelm, Founding member and president
Economist; founder of the Framework Convention Alliance; Vice–President of the National Committee Against Tobacco Consumption (CNCT)
Jean-Paul Humair, Vice-president
Tobacco specialist; former director of CIPRET Geneva
Werner Bill, Founding member and treasurer
Former Chief Executive of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Ode Billard, Secretary
Writer; former Lausanne municipal councillor
Luc Lebon
Head of the Tobacco Prevention Sector, Unisanté
Partners in Switzerland
AT Switzerland, Swiss Association for Smoking Prevention
Tabak- und nikotin- Präventionsprogramm Zürich
Unisanté, University Center for General Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne