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The risk of suffering depression increases 41% in smokers, in comparison with non-smokers. This was the conclusion of a study undertaken with 8,556 participants by scientists of the University of Navarra, in collaboration with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Harvard School of Public Health (USA), and which demonstrates in a pioneering way the direct relationship between tobacco use and this disease.
The article, whose first author is Prof. Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, is based on research undertaken over the course of 6 years on university graduates with an average age of 42.
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The work - exhaustive it is a report on the present situation of the tobacco consumption from a sort perspective. And it adds, that is perhaps but the important thing, a series of future recommendations. It takes the seal of the National Committee for the Prevention of Tabaquismo (CNPT) that publishes with the collaboration of the Observatory of the Woman of the Ministry of Health and Consumption. In him the most qualified specialists in the study take part of which it is possible to be called with all property, tabáquica epidemic in our country.
Doctor Mª Planchuelo Angels, besides to dedicate all her medical life to this problem of public health, is today the president of the CNPT. Perhaps the first question that can arise before this publication is porqué is necessary to approach the tabaquismo from this perspective; in other words, if the circumstance of being man or woman alters the problem.
One first question that is analyzed in this report is the analysis of the social and biological conditioners that in this subject affect of form different from women and men.
国际在线专稿：对烟民们来说，戒烟是件痛苦的事——既饱受烟瘾的折磨，又背负着戒烟的重任。据阿根廷《国家报》3月8日消息，目前，阿根廷、西班牙正流行一种名叫Quitómetro的戒烟软件。通过这种软件，戒烟者可以详细地了解到戒烟的成果和进度，从而更加有效地完成戒烟。
La Guardia Civil ha detenido a dos hombres acusados de contrabando de tabaco en la frontera entre Lleida y Andorra, según informó hoy la Subdelegación del Gobierno de Lleida. Llevaban escondidas en un todoterreno 3.301 cajetillas, valoradas en 9.022 euros.
The State collected 5,006 million euros through special taxes and IVA of the tobacco in the seven first months of the year, which supposes an increase of 13% with respect to the entered thing in he himself period of the previous year, according to data presented/displayed today by of the Club of Smokers by the Tolerance. . . .
“All it makes think that 2007 will be a new year record for the coffers of the State as far as tax collection of the pocket of the smoker”, it maintains the association, after standing out that it is the second year in which the Law Antitabaco is vigor.
The Club of Smokers by the Tolerance denounces “the condition of citizen of second of the smokers, every day more undressed of rights”, while they support a tax burden over 75% of the sale price to the public of cigarettes.
Franco-Spanish tobacco company Altadis on Wednesday raised its cigarette prices by 0.10 euros a packet, Spain's official government bulletin reported.
A pack of Altadis' Fortuna and Nobel brands will now cost 2.50 euros, according to the government register.
The increase compares with a rise of between 5 and 25 cents in Altadis cigarette prices at the start of 2007.
It's almost two years since the controversial No Smoking Law came into effect in Spain and this does seem to have had an effect on habits. In fact in the first 21 months of the new law cigarette sales fell by ten per cent in the province of Malaga, the equivalent of no fewer than 15 million packets of cigarettes.
Dolores Gil, who represents the association of tobacconists in Malaga, confirms that the law has taken its toll on cigarette sales. "People who used to smoke a packet a day are now smoking half", . . .
Meanwhile the pharmacies are also noticing the growing interest in giving up smoking.
The National Committee of Prevention of the Tabaquismo calculates that in both years of use of the law, 1.6 million people have let smoke. Although the success cannot be attributed to the law completely, the sanitary experts agree in which the one that cannot be smoked in the work places helps, and has convinced many smokers that they can leave the habit.
An anti-smoking law which entered into force two years ago has helped 1.6 million Spaniards to stop smoking, media reported Wednesday. The law, which prohibits smoking at work and in public buildings and limits it in bars and restaurants, is not always respected, but has nevertheless cut cigarette sales, according to the daily El Pais.
The law has proved most effective in places of work. Several hundred commercial establishments, university faculties, hospitals and other places are under investigation over allegedly breaking the law.
Meanwhile in Portugal, bar and restaurant owners began adjusting to a similar law that entered into force from January 1.
It has emerged that Barcelona customs officers seized a container from Chiwan in China on the 11th December that contained 370,000 packs of counterfeit Lambert & Butler cigarettes with a street value in Spain of more than one million euros, rising to nearly three times that amount had they reached the UK.
The other morning some local newspapers awoke with sadness, like after a borrachera. One closed the last tobacco factory of Seville, an institution that in spite of its changes of vecindario and the gradual acorralamiento of the Ministries of Health and Economy continued associating our city with the ultramarine product fragrances and the faded memory of the empire of the other border . . .
In short, the disappearance of the legendary tobacco factory of Seville eliminates both with a stroke of the pen, without greater remorses. After all, cigarettes and volumes are made up all of paper and have reserved a common destiny: the ash.
Around 110 patients from five floors of the Can Ruti Hospital in Badalona had to be evacauted at lunchtime today as a result of the thick smoke originating from a small fire in the hospital basement warehouse that, it is believed, may have been started by a discarded cigarette end.
Conclusion
A considerable reduction in exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the workplace and, to a lesser extent, in bars and restaurants, is related to the implementation of the "Tobacco control law". Although only initial figures, these results already demonstrate the effectiveness of strategies that establish control measures to guarantee smoke-free places.
Tubular Bells composer Mike Oldfield has quit Britain because the smoking ban and health-and-safety culture have made life "intolerable".
The multi-millionaire is selling his £3.5million Gloucestershire mansion and has moved to Spain, where he says people have more freedom.
He said Britain had become too strict, with its "ludicrous" emphasis on health-and-safety rules and the increased use of CCTV and speed cameras. . . .
The 54-year-old musician told The Mail on Sunday: "I went to a very strict prep school. You were so restricted. It was one of the worst times in my life.
"Britain has been getting more and more like that, what with this health-and-safety business.
Musician MIKE OLDFIELD has quit Britain - because he hates the country's smoking ban. The Tubular Bells composer is selling his $7 million (GBP3.5 million) Gloucestershire, England, mansion to prepare for a move to Spain, as he insists life in the U.K. has become "intolerable"