New challenges for tobacco control: is there interference from the tobacco industry in Spain? The answer to this question was extensively debated in a monographic conference on the 27th of April and the conclusion was strongly “yes”. In fact, the tobacco industry has been and still is interfering both on a national and international level […]
La industria del tabaco interfiere en los esfuerzos de salud pública para el control del tabaco mediante maniobras para secuestrar el proceso político y legislativo; exagerar la importancia económica de la industria; manipular la opinión pública para obtener la apariencia de respetabilidad; fabricando apoyo a través de grupos de fachada; desacreditar la ciencia probada; e […]
The Cancer Prevention Route took place on April 7 in El Masnou, as part of the Health Week activities organized by the El Masnou city council with the collaboration of the Table of Community Health of El Masnou and the Sant Franscesc d’Asís Foundation The route was in charge of The Tobacco Control Unit and […]
On the 11th and 12th of March the INSTrUCT Project consortium held a meeting within the framework of the “International Meeting on Challenges in the Implementation of Training to Quit Smoking” in Coimbra. The event had a hybrid format, face-to-face and online, with a total of 106 participants. INSTrUCT is an educational projectfunded by ERASMUS+ […]
On the 11th of March 2022, health professionals, academics, and researchers from Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and the UK will get together in the framework of a Conference entitled “Challenges in the Implementation of Smoking Cessation Training”. The Conference will take place in Coimbra in a hybrid format (online and in person). The program and the […]
Past Thursday, January 13, we had the first meeting of the project “Effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to promote smoke-free homes: randomized controlled trial” financed by the Carlos III Health Institute. This study is coordinated by the ICO/IDIBELL Tobacco Control Unit in collaboration with researchers from the Public Health Agencies of Barcelona (ASPB) and Catalonia […]
For a long time, the tobacco industry has been interfering in tobacco control policies at the local, regional, and global level by means of varied tactics. These aggressive tactics try to undermine the public health efforts including the WHO FCTC and include, as described by WHO, maneuvering to hijack the political and legislative process; exaggerating […]
Researchers from the Tobacco Control Unit have identified factors associated with changes in smoking patterns during and after one month of hospital discharge among smokers. This work has been published in the International Journal of Nursing Scholarship. The study included a representative cohort of adult smokers from four centres (2 in Catalonia and 2 in […]
After more than a year with restrictions due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, face-to-face conferences have returned. One of the first in-person conferences has been the 3rd International Edition of the Socidrogalcohol Congress held in Barcelona from October 21 to 23 in which three members of the ICO’s Tobacco Control Unit (UCT )participated. This year […]
The Annual Conference of the GNTH International Network – Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services was held on October 13th. Under the title “Challenges”, and this year in online format, we wanted to give visibility to the recently awarded with the recognition WHO World No Tobacco Day 2021, on the one hand the German […]
