The Tobacco Control Unit (UCT) of the Catalan Oncology Institute (ICO) participated last Friday in the 14th Conference of the Catalan Society for Tobacco Care and Treatment (SCATT). This new edition brought together more than 300 health professionals. It highlighted the need to dispel myths about tobacco, especially among young people, and the importance of working towards the cessation of smoking.
As in previous years, several members of the Unit participated in lectures on aspects of preventing and treating smoking. Esteve Fernández, who heads the UCT, gave a presentation focusing on the concept of “Tobacco Endgame”. It refers to the initiatives aimed at permanently changing the structural, political and social dynamics that sustain the tobacco epidemic, with the aim of eradicating it in a given period of time.
UCT researcher Montse Ballbè also took part in a round table on electronic cigarettes, as did nurse Anna Riccobene, who moderated a session on clinical cases.