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 About : Ethics/Charter
 Scientific knowledge
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At least one person at the Centre must have specific knowledge on tobacco-related issues. This person must either:
- have demonstrated by its scientific publications that he or she intends to improve the access to knowledge regarding nicotine addiction and ways to quit smoking; or
- hold degree in tobacco control or be certified from a Tobacco Control Institute; or
- have passed an exam.
- One person at the Centre must be a member of the Tobacco Control Institute.
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Treatments and advertising
Therapists who work at the Centre are free to use different options in treatments, tested or empirical, that they judge
appropriate to treat each customer. However, each therapist will abide by the following:
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He/she will not apply any treatment in a systematic and univocal way. The treatment must be appropriate to each customer and
evolve in accordance with required knowledge in laser therapy and tobacco control.
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He/she will not mention, directly or indirectly, any treatment methods that would be applied by the Centre, neither to
customers nor in written or automated documents that promote the Centre.
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He/she will not introduce him/herself as a promoter of a so-called "personal method".
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He/she will stick to methods that have already been tested and approved.
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He/she will not pretend to have achieved a success rate that would not be based on a proven empirical study.
Only the results obtained for specific biomarkers, at least by measuring alveolar carbon oxide level, can be
used as proof that a customer is actually a non-smoker.
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He/she will make this charter available to customers.
Activities
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Besides the treatments that it provides and according to its means and personnel's availability, the Tobacco Control
Centre must also promote scientific knowledge regarding tobacco addiction and its treatments. The Centre must keep an
updated observation book or file for each customer, recording the results of exams, tests, dosage administered, treatment
prescribed and its course, in order to publish reliable and verifiable results and to possibly take part in comparative
studies between centres.
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Anonymous data taken from these observation files must be made available upon request for publication.
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