Smoking control in Spain: current situation and priorities
Por:
Villalbi, JR, Suelves, JM, Martinez, C, Valverde, A, Cabezas, C, Fernandez, E
Publicada:
15 jul 2019
Resumen:
This paper presents a strategic analysis of the prevention of smoking in Spain. After a review of the situation of the epidemic and of the current prevention policies with the data available in 2019, it identifies the main problems to improve the prevention of smoking, while proposing strategies and key actions for the future. Considering as major objectives reducing the initiation of smoking and helping smokers quit, the different strategies of action and the key actions to be developed. In addition to helping smokers to stop smoking from the health services, key preventive actions include several public policies including taxation, banning advertising and other forms of promotion, the regulation of tobacco packaging, the expansion of smoke-free spaces, and information to the public on its effects. Some of them have followed a positive path for prevention in Spain but for others there is wide room for improvement. The MPOWER strategy of the WHO offers a guide for the development of the most effective tobacco control policies. In its light it is recommended to put emphasis on actions related to expanding smoke-free areas, to develop distance support services to stop smoking, to periodically carry out advertising campaigns of wide coverage to encourage quitting, to reinforce support for quitting in health care services, to finance pharmacological treatments, to expand the advertising ban to electronic devices that release nicotine, and to increase the tax burden on tobacco and other products delivering nicotine.
Filiaciones:
Villalbi, JR:
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Pl Lesseps 1, Barcelona 08023, Spain
CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ, Madrid, Spain
Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Suelves, JM:
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Generalitat Catalunya, Secretaria Salut Publ, Dept Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Univ Oberta Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Martinez, C:
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Inst Catala Oncol, Unitat Control Tabac, Lhospitalet De Llobregat, Spain
Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Inst Invest Biomed Bellvitge, Lhospitalet De Llobregat, Spain
Valverde, A:
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Generalitat Catalunya, Secretaria Salut Publ, Dept Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Cabezas, C:
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Generalitat Catalunya, Secretaria Salut Publ, Dept Salut, Barcelona, Spain
Fernandez, E:
Consell Assessor Tabaquisme Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Inst Catala Oncol, Unitat Control Tabac, Lhospitalet De Llobregat, Spain
Univ Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Inst Invest Biomed Bellvitge, Lhospitalet De Llobregat, Spain
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