http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/spain.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/108272.php http://tobacco.org/news/265767.html A research team from the University of Granada has carried out a study on the psychological process that triggers the "craving" or intense desire for tobacco, a study that could establish the bases to determine the brain mechanisms that activate this state and how to control them. Miguel Ángel Muñoz García, from the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada has carried out this study, under the direction of the Professors Jaime Vila Castelar and Mª Carmen Fernández Santaella. "Craving" is an expression used to define an uncontrollable desire for the administration or consumption of an addictive substance. . . . These results have been the basis of a series of studies with smokers, in withdrawal for 8 hours, to measure the physiological and emotional variables present in withdrawal symptoms using a machine (a polygraph) to estimate the emotional mechanisms responsible for the addiction to that substance. The smokers were shown several images (48) connected with situations that produce desire (related with leisure, free time, coffee…), analysing the heart´s defensive cardiac response produced as well as the startle response. . . . Miguel Ángel Muñoz García states that this research has studied for the first time behavioural mechanisms involved in the tobacco craving process determining the brain areas and body responses connected with the compulsive behaviour provoked by tobacco. Medical News TODAY Spain Thu, 22 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424103225.htm http://tobacco.org/news/264050.html 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. ScienceDaily Magazine editor@sciencedaily.com Spain Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.laprovincia.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2008031000_5_136150__Sociedad-y-Futuro-tabaco-conquista-mujeres http://tobacco.org/news/261106.html 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. La Provincia / Diario de Las Palmas Spain Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://gb.cri.cn/19924/2008/03/10/2585@1972240.htm http://tobacco.org/news/261074.html 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。 中国国际广播电台, China Radio International /18504/2007/11/26/2585@1855211.htm Spain Argentina Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://actualidad.terra.es/provincias/lleida/articulo/detienen_andorra_frontera_hombres_cajetillas_2295068.htm http://tobacco.org/news/260748.html 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. Actualidad Spain Andorra Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://noticias.guiasamarillas.es/__n52469__economia-el_estado_recaudo_mas_de_5.000_millones_de_euros_de_impuestos_al_tabaco_hasta_julio2C_un_1325_mas.html http://tobacco.org/news/259758.html 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. Guias Amarillas publicidad@edicosma.com Spain Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSL0963332620080109 http://tobacco.org/news/257852.html 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. Reuters Spain Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.surinenglish.com/noticias.php?Noticia=11965 http://tobacco.org/news/257667.html 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. SUR in English sureng@surinenglish.com (Almudena Nogués ) Spain Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/millones/dejan/fumar/ley/elpepisoc/20080102elpepisoc_3/Tes http://tobacco.org/news/257527.html 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. El Pais Spain Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/167704.html http://tobacco.org/news/257517.html 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. Earth Times Spain Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/14219/fake-chinese-fags-seized-at-barcelona-port http://tobacco.org/news/257494.html 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. ThinkSpain.com China Spain Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.elpais.com/articulo/andalucia/Leer/fumar/elpepuespand/20071213elpand_7/Tes http://tobacco.org/news/256685.html 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. El Pais Spain Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/14195/fag-end-suspected-of-starting-badalona-hospital-blaze http://tobacco.org/news/256684.html 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. ThinkSpain.com Spain Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2034550 http://tobacco.org/news/255183.html 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. PubMed Central pubmedcentral@nih.gov Spain Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488761&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490 http://tobacco.org/news/254162.html 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. The Mail UK Spain Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT