Passive Smokers Rebound in Spain After Almost Two Decades without Tightening the Tobacco Law
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The environmental exposure to it amounts to 54.9% when the terraces are included, in addition, that of e-cigarette aerosols and heated tobacco products reaches 38.2%
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After almost 20 years of historical declines due to the hardening, in two phases, of the law of tobacco, the number of passive smokers is rebounding in Spain due to 16 years without new legislative actions of draught, the exposure to smoke on the terraces and the irruption of electronic cigarettes. It is one of the main conclusions of a study of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), which has been published this Tuesda…
After smoking was banned in bars, restaurants and workplaces in 2005, passive smokers rose from 49.5% to 37.9% in 2007. And when five years later this veto was extended to nightlife venues, playgrounds and health centers, this overall percentage fell by half, to 21.3% in 2011. But now, fifteen years later, that decline has stalled.
A Spanish study published in a journal of the BMJ group focuses on how the lack of new rules regulating tobacco exposure increases the percentage of passive smokers Read
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