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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, recently met with the Tobacco Board, the highest representative of the sector, and made it clear that his obligation is limited to ensuring the health of the Spanish and that, "as soon as possible", he is going to

promote the restrictions with new smoke-free spaces

and the regulation of the electronic cigarette.

Minister Illa has been immersed in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic for months, but he does not forget what he remembers is the

"most important" preventable cause of death

in Spain, smoking and diseases caused by smoking. for which about 60,000 people die each year in Spain.

Furthermore, Minister Illa is concerned because "there is an increase in the prevalence of smoking

in segments of the young population

."

"I have already met at least twice with the entities and associations that are in the fight against smoking, and I have also met with the sector (the Tobacco Table) and I have told them that our obligation is to

protect public health of all citizens,

"Illa asserted in statements to Efe, alluding to a meeting with the sector that he later reported to the National Committee for the Prevention of Smoking (CNPT).

It is not very common for the Minister of Health to meet with the Tobacco Table, where large multinationals such as

Philip Morris, Altadis or BAT

are represented

, as well as farmers, distributors and processors.

The official interlocutor of the Tobacco Table with the Government is the

Commissioner for the Tobacco Market

, an autonomous body of the General State Administration that depends on the Ministry of Finance.

Despite this, Illa agreed to meet with the tobacco sector and reminded them that "our obligation is to protect the health of all citizens."

"And, therefore, we are going to

strengthen and review" tobacco regulation

"as soon as possible."

In the first place, Illa recalls that "the law must be complied with" against smoking, but he also advances that his will is to "increase smoke-free spaces to areas not currently covered", as well as "regulate new forms of smoking and to smoke (electronic cigarettes) and to contemplate them also in the law ", because" they produce deceptive situations ", as in the case of the publicity or the subject of the supposed" less risk ".

"We will do all this as soon as possible, to the extent that the fight against covid leaves us a space, we will soon see realities in this field," concludes the Minister of Health, who thus remains firm in his fight against smoking.

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