Norway's National Strategy for Tobacco Control by the Ministry of Health and Care Services has as its main goal to promote health in all parts of the population and ensure more years of healthy life by reducing the use of tobacco.
The National Strategy for Tobacco Control 2006-2010 deals with eight strategic areas:
- Tobacco prevention among young people
- Smoking cessation
- Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke
- The use of smokeless tobacco
- Research, monitoring and evaluation
- Information strategies and general communication
- Tobacco control as a part of local public health activities
- Tobacco control in an international perspective
Evaluation of Norwegian tobacco control
The Ministry of Health and Care Services invited World Health Organization (WHO) to make an assessment of the Norwegian tobacco control efforts. WHO made several important findings, where some require swift action, while others need a more long term strategy.
The WHO report «Joint National Capacity Assessment on the Implementation of Effective Tobacco Control Policies in Norway» from April 2010 is part of the basis for a new Norwegian strategy, to be introduced in 2012.