Previous projects
Evaluation of Law 28/2005 on tobacco control in the hospitality industry
Evaluation of the impact of the new “Law Regulating the Sale, Supply, Consumption and Advertising of Tobacco Products” on levels of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: subproject on salivary cotinine levels in restaurant workers
Ireland pioneered the introduction of measures restricting tobacco use in workplaces, including restaurants and pubs, in March 2004. Evaluations of compliance with the law in the first year of its implementation were positive, with significant decreases in concentrations of ultrafine particles, CO and benzene in pubs and significant improvements in the lung function of waiters. In Spain, the “law regulating the sale, supply, consumption and advertising of tobacco products” (Bill 121/000036) was implemented in 2006. This new law banned smoking in workplaces, including the catering and hospitality sector, as had already been successfully implemented in other European countries.
Determine levels of exposure to tobacco smoke through a questionnaire and measurement of cotinine concentration in saliva of non-smoking workers before and after the law came into force (in the short, medium and long term).
Prospective cohort study. The cohort was formed by a convenience sample of smoking and non-smoking restaurant workers in 5 Autonomous Communities (n=431 in total). These participants, identified before the law, were contacted at 4 different times: before the law and at 4 months, 16 months and 24 months after the law came into force. Active tobacco consumption, passive exposure and attitudes and beliefs towards the law by the workers were determined by interview with questionnaire, and saliva was collected to determine the cotinine concentration by capillary gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry.
Grant PI052072 (€186,830.00, in three years) from the Health Research Fund of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, FEDER).
2006-2008.
Esteve Fernández (Principal Investigator, ICO-IDIBELL)
Sonia Álvarez (Directorate General of Drug Addictions, Government of Cantabria)
Carles Ariza (ASPB)
Josep M. Borràs (ICO-IDIBELL)
Francisco Carrión (University Clinical Hospital of Valencia)
Francesc Centrich (ASPB)
Marcela Fu (ICO-IDIBELL)
M. Jesús García (General Directorate of Public Health, Xunta de Galicia)
A. Arturo López (Balearic Health Service, Government of the Balearic Islands)
M. José López (ASPB)
Anna Martín (ICO-IDIBELL)
Fernando Martín Fuente (Health Center Los Valles, Cantabria)
Jose M. Martínez-Sánchez (ICO-IDIBELL)
Gloria Muñoz (ASPB)
Manel Nebot (ASPB)
José A. Pascual (IMIM)
Pepa Pont (Directorate General of Public Health, Generalitat Valenciana)
Francesca Sánchez-Martínez (ASPB)
M. Isolina Santiago (General Directorate of Public Health, Xunta de Galicia)
Anna Schiaffino (ICO-IDIBELL)
Elena Tejera (Directorate General of Public Health, Government of the Balearic Islands)
Jorge Twose (Catalan Transplant Organization)
Araceli Valverde (Directorate General of Public Health, Government of Catalonia)
Fernández E, Fu M, Pascual JA, López MJ, Pérez-Ríos M, Schiaffino A, Martínez-Sánchez JM, Ariza C, Saltó E, Nebot M. Spanish Smoking Law Evaluation Group. Impact of the Spanish smoking law on exposure to second-hand smoke and respiratory health in hospitality workers: a cohort study . PLoS One. 2009;4:e4244.
Nebot M, López MJ, Ariza C, Pérez-Ríos M, Fu M, Schiaffino A, Muñoz G, Saltó E, Fernández E. Spanish Smoking Law Evaluation Group. Impact of the Spanish smoking law on exposure to secondhand smoke in offices and hospitality venues: before-and-after study . Environmental Health Perspectives. 2009;117:344-7.
Martínez-Sánchez JM, Fu M, Pérez-Ríos M, López MJ, Nebot M, Schiaffino A, Saltó E, Ariza C, Pascual JA, Fernández E. Spanish Smoking Law Evaluation Group. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and concentration of cotinine in saliva in hospitality workers (Spain, 2005) . Archives of Occupational Risk Prevention. 2009; 12:78-87.
Martínez-Sánchez JM, Fernández E, Fu M, Pérez-Ríos M, López MJ, Ariza C, Pascual JA, Schiaffino A, Pérez-Ortuño R, Saltó E, Nebot M. Impact of the Spanish smoking law in smoker hospitality workers . Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2009;11:1099-106.
Martínez-Sánchez JM, Fu M, Pérez-Ríos M, López MJ, Moncada A, Fernández E. DCOT study investigators. Spanish Smoking Law Evaluation Group. Comparing salivary cotinine concentration in non-smokers from the general population and hospitality workers in Spain . European Journal of Public Health. 2009;19:662-4.
Martínez-Sánchez JM, Fenández E, Fu M, Pérez-Ríos M, Schiaffino A, López MJ, Alonso B, Saltó E, Nebot M, Borràs JM. Evaluation Group of the Law on health measures against smoking. Changes in the expectations and attitudes of hospitality workers after the law on health measures against smoking. Health Gazette 2010;24:241-6.
López MJ, Nebot M, Schiaffino A, Pérez-Ríos M, Fu M, Ariza C, Muñoz G, Fernández E. Spanish Smoking Law Evaluation Group. Two-year impact of the Spanish smoking law on exposure to secondhand smoke: evidence of the failure of the “Spanish model” . Tobacco Control. 2012;21:407-11.
López MJ, Fernández E, Pérez-Rios M, Martínez-Sánchez JM, Schiaffino A, Galán I, Moncada A, Fu M, Montes A, Saltó E, Nebot M. Impact of the 2011 Spanish smoking ban in hospitality venues: indoor secondhand smoke exposure and influence of outdoor smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2013;15:992-6.
Monograph
Nebot M, Fernández E (coordinators). Ariza C, Fernández E, Fu M, Galán I, López MJ, Martínez-Sánchez JM, Moncada A, Montes A, Nebot M, Pérez-Ríos M, Saltó E, Schiaffino A, Soriano MJ (authors). Evaluation of the impact of the Law on health measures against smoking . Barcelona: Grupo de Trabajo de Tabaquismo-SEE, Ministry of Health and Social Policy, 2009.