The CECOVA welcomes the entry into force of the antitobacco law and calls for increased public resources to combat smoking.

valencia, January of 2011- the Council of nursing in the region of Valencia (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante applauded on Monday the benefits for public health ” posed by the entry into force of law 42/2010 December 30, 2010amending law 28/2005 of 26 December, health measures against smoking, and regulating the sale, supply, consumption and advertising of tobacco products.

Professional nursing organizations stressed that the new law ” fixed that public administrations should promote programmes for cessation in primary care, and enhance access to treatments and create units of cessation ”.

The President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila Olivares, welcomed that law specifically provides empowerment education programmes for health ” and offered to collaborate side by side with the Administration to carry out this type of prevention in the field of education, where the school nurses can bring their experience to develop this preventive work .

In the same way, also recalled that the law invites public authorities to raise awareness against smoking in schools and act in pediatric care with specific information for parents programs smoking and campaigns on the harm of the smoke in children ”.

For this reason, the President of the CECOVA claimed an increase in public resources to combat smoking with the empowerment of nicotine addiction and units of behavior addictive (UCA) present in the public health network and through the increase of the workshops on the prevention and cessation of smoking ”.

Educational awareness-raising and prevention work

In this sense, praised the important educational work of awareness-raising and prevention developed by nurses in hospitals nicotine addiction drives and through workshops of smoking prevention in the field of education by school nurses ”.

Similarly, the President of the CECOVA also insisted on the need of delve into the politics of progressive increase of the prices of tobacco ” because is proven if it increases the price of tobacco reduces its consumption, especially among younger ”. Also called make more pedagogy towards eradicating misconceptions which says that to quit smoking are fattening when precisely what is being done is to improve the health status of ”.

On the other hand, José Antonio Avila emphasized the increase ” of paediatric consultations for respiratory diseases with pulmonary obstruction and cancer-related processes and explained that many of these problems have their trigger risk factors such as smoking of parents in the family home ”.

In this regard, he recalled the case of China, a country in which men smoke much unlike their wives who are fewer smokers, but which paradoxically is increasing the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in women ”.