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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

Durant els passat dies 29 i 30 de setembre i 5 i 7 d’octubre s’ha celebrat, de forma telemàtica, el XI Congrés del Congrés del Comitè Nacional per a la Prevenció del Tabaquisme amb el lema “Vulnerabilitat, tabac i nicotina”. La Unitat de Control del Tabac (UCT) de l’ICO ha participat en el comitè científic

Since last May, together with the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, ICO implemented the campaign Allunyem el tabac, promoted by the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals (UCT). This campaign aims to move tobacco use away from the hospital entrances with the ultimate goal of reducing the visibility of tobacco, denormalizing tobacco use and raising

Researchers at the Tobacco Control Unit-University of Barcelona have published results about  “knowledge, attitudes, and training in tobacco dependence and cessation treatment” from the ECTEC study at the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Nursing students are part of the future health labor force; thus, knowing their knowledge and participation in tobacco control is of

Després de l’edició no presencial de l’any passat, el congrés de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) ha aplegat més de 600 persones a la Universitat de Lleó. Entre elles, una quinzena de professionals de la Direcció d’Epidemiologia i Prevenció del Càncer i concretament tres persones de la Unitat de Control del Tabac (UCT) de

We are very pleased that on 16th June 2021, one of our team members, Beladenta Amalia, has successfully presented her doctoral thesis entitled “Environmental and bystanders’ exposure to secondhand aerosols of electronic cigarettes in the European population” at Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona. The Dissertation comprises five original papers in leading journals. The Dissertation comprehensively

​La Unitat de Control del Tabac de l’ICO ha estat guardonat per l’Organització Mundial de la Salut (OMS) amb un dels Premis del Dia Mundial Sense Tabac 2021, que se celebrarà el proper 31 de maig, per la seva  feina i els èxits obtinguts en l’àmbit del control del tabac. De fet, cada any la