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Four out of ten Spanish smokers have tried to quit in the past yearNearly half a million people in Spain received funded drug treatments to help them beat the habit
Añádenos en Google A woman in a tobacconist’s in Segovia. (Antonio de Torre)Madrid
19/06/2026 a las 12:47h.More than four in ten smokers have tried to quit in the past year as health officials warn the habit still kills 50,000 people ... annually in Spain.
A new report, 'Smoking Cessation: A Health and Social Challenge', revealed that 44.1% of smokers attempted to give up over the last 12 months, while two in three (67.7%) have considered doing so at some point.
The study, produced by the Ministry of Health and the General Council of Pharmaceutical Associations, showed that up to 494,000 people used publicly funded pharmacological therapies to help them quit.
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