While soil pollution can stem from various sources, the French seem particularly concerned about diffuse pollution, whether it results from the deposition of air pollutants—especially...

By their very nature, Health Barometers are designed to be repeated over time, using the same methodologies and questionnaires, in order to track trends. As such, they are very useful...

Smoking is a major public health issue due to the morbidity and mortality that can be attributed to it. British cohort studies have shown, for example, that approximately half of regular...

Pakalolo, or paka—the local term for cannabis and its derivatives—is by far the most commonly used illicit substance among adolescents in French Polynesia. The current legislation...

Smoking accounts for 25% of cancer deaths in France and is by far the leading preventable risk factor for cancer in France and worldwide. In addition to being the primary cause of lung...

Among the many topics covered in the 2010 HBSC survey, the use of legal and illegal psychoactive substances is of particular interest. By surveying students at the very moment when some...

Trends in smoking prevalence since the early 1970s show that smoking rates among men have fallen sharply, from nearly 60% to about one-third in recent years, while rates among women rose...

Epidemiological monitoring of illicit drug use has made significant progress in France since the late 1990s, as evidenced by the number of surveys conducted and their increased ability...

With nearly 80,000 new cases per year in France, skin cancers (basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, and melanomas) are the most common types of cancer. They are also among...

As opinion polls conducted by the European Commission or, in France, by the French Institute for the Environment (Ifen) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety...