Representatives of the Spanish anti-tobacco organizations made an appeal to the European Parliament, urging deputies to toughen the fight against smoking in Spain and throughout the continent, writes Spain in Russian. According to the Spaniards, the most effective measure is not the introduction of regular smoking bans, which do not always work, but a significant increase in the cost of a cigarette pack - up to € 10.

Thus, Spain, where a standard pack of cigarettes with rare exceptions costs around € 5, is going to follow the example of France, where such pleasure will cost € 8 already, and by 2020 will reach a price of € 10.

As far as this measure was effective, it says at least that after the price increase more than a million French smokers got rid of this bad habit.. Similar measures are planned to take Ireland and the UK, and the farthest out until now went Australia, where a pack of cigarettes now costs about € 20.

Numerous scientific studies claim that increasing the price by just 10% reduces the number of tobacco lovers by 3.7%, and this is most noticeable for young people who do not have sufficient funds..