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They participated this Tuesday in a day organized for the next World No Tobacco Day.
Health professionals advocate for new initiatives and "legislative impulses" to reduce tobacco consumption. They are committed to addressing issues such as generic labeling or the expansion of smoke-free spaces to advance the "preservation of people's health."
"The great laws showed a decrease in tobacco consumption. But if new impulses are not proposed from time to time, the trend is towards stabilization or increase," said yesterday the general director of Public Health of the Government of Aragon, Francisco Javier Falo, who participated in the Tobacco and Pulmonary Health conference, which was held in the Auditorium of the University of Zaragoza on the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day on the 31st. The University and the Zaragoza City Council also collaborated in the organization of the session.
The head of Public Health expressed his concern that the latest Estudes survey (among young people aged 14 to 18) points to "stabilization" in consumption (30% acknowledge that they have smoked in the last 30 days). Meanwhile, according to the National Health Survey, 24% of Aragonese smoked daily in 2017. "We are not going down and that makes us consider new initiatives, new legislative impulses," said Falo, who recalled that there are still "gaps" or "crosses the line" on many issues, for example, smoking on terraces.
Regarding the impact on health, Falo acknowledged that it is "very high." In that sense, the vice-rector of Culture and Social Projection, Yolanda Polo, emphasized that addiction is already a disease in itself and she recalled that in smoking, as in any chronic pathology, there are relapses. She recognized that 80% of those who quit smoking stay for one month, 50% after six months, and 30% or 35% after a year.
