On Wednesday May 25th, the first day of the XXIII Smoke-Free Week, the XII Conference of the Catalan Society for the Care and Treatment of Tobacco Consumption was held at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. The Conference was in face-to-face format after two years, which provided a good meeting […]
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La Unitat de Control del Tabac (UCT) ha participat en diverses activitats durant la ‘Setmana sense Fum‘ que va culminar el dia 31 de maig amb la celebració del Dia Mundial sense Tabac. Aquesta iniciativa està destinada a augmentar la consciència de la població en aquest important problema de salut pública. Aquest any, i amb l’objectiu de donar a conèixer l’empremta
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Researchers from the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology-University of Barcelona have published results on the determinants of follow-up of a cohort of nursing students from Catalonia in the Journal of Professional Nursing. Of the 4,381 participants in the baseline study conducted in the 2015-2016 academic year, 25% (1,097) participated in the
FIA, a global organization that promotes motor sport, continues accepting sponsorship from tobacco industry. The organization that promotes roads safety at the same time accepts sponsorship from the industry that contributes to more than 8 million deaths worldwide each year due to tobacco consumption. Such sponsorship is not acceptable! On May 2022, Spain hosts Formula 1
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On May 10, the nurses of the Tobacco Control Unit (UCT) Clinic, Anna Riccobene and Marta Enríquez, held two informative-motivational workshops for smokers at the Joia Foundation. This non-profit organization offers insertion services to people with mental disorders in 10 centers in Barcelona. Specifically, the activity was held at the headquarters of Bac de Roda in
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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
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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
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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
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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+
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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
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