The Tobacco Control Unit (UCT) develops various research projects and intervention aimed at determining and know how to prevent and control tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the population. We use essentially the methods of epidemiology. Tobacco control is one of the priority themes of the Catalan Health Plan and various master plans (oncology and respiratory disease) and therefore our aim is that this projects developed at UCT have impact on the prevention and tobacco control in both, our immediate environment (ICO), as nationally and internationally.

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