Resumen de Towards stronger tobacco control policies to curb the smoking epidemic in Spain

Mónica Pérez Ríos, Carla Guerra Tort, Guadalupe García, Julia Rey Brandariz, Nerea Mourino, Ana Teijeiro, Raquel Casal Fernández, Leonor Varela Lema, Alberto Ruano Raviña, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia , Iñaki Galán

• Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke pose a signifcant risk to the health of populations. Although this evidence is not new, the commitment of countries to implement laws aimed at controlling consumption and eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke is uneven. Thus, in North America or in Europe, locations like California or Ireland, are pioneers in establishing policies aimed at protecting the population against smoking and secondhand smoke. Identifying measures that have worked would help control this important Public Health problem in other countries that are further behind in tobacco control policies. In Spain, there has been almost 15 years of little political action in legislation oriented to control the tobacco epidemic. If we want to achieve the tobacco endgame, new legislative measures must be implemented. In this paper, we have elucidated tobacco control policies that could be implemented and show how diferent countries have done so.