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One of the most important tasks of the Public Health Agency of Sweden is to continuously follow the epidemiological situation concerning communicable diseases, especially those included in the Communicable Diseases Act.

The Public Health Agency of Sweden supervises tobacco and nicotine products at national level. We are also responsible for market surveillance of e-cigarettes, tobacco products and herbal products for smoking. Here you can read about supervision and market surveillance and how we work.

Unit packets of tobacco products provided to consumers in Sweden must be marked with a unique identifier to track and trace the products throughout the supply chain down to the retail level.

Every year, more than 1200 people die by suicide in Sweden. An additional 300 cases are classified as undetermined intent, of which many may have been suicide. More than two thirds of those who die by suicide are men.

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The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) has conducted a systematic review of the available knowledge on possible associations between the use of e-cigarettes or snus and tobacco smoking. We summarise the most important results below.

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The 21 regions and 290 municipalities in Sweden are political bodies and most of the welfare services that impact citizens’ lifelong health fall under their remit, such as healthcare, childcare, schools, social service, elderly care and support to people with disabilities, some emergency services…

The professional use of Class 1 and 2 plant protection products and Class 1 biocide products within Swedish Public Health Agency areas of responsibility are in the form of regulated professions, consequently Swedish legislation regulates what is required for such use.

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