18 Galician municipalities have joined the initiative Each one may have a park through which smoking shall be prohibited The goal is to denormalize tobacco consumption
Galicia created a pioneering program in 2016 in order that seashores in the neighborhood had been freed from tobacco smoke. Currently there are already 214 sandbanks the place smoking is prohibited. Now this initiative goes to be prolonged, additionally, to inexperienced areas.
The Xunta has launched the ‘Galician community of smoke-free parks’, with the goal of making extra tobacco-free public areas. 18 municipalities of the group have already joined it.
All of them may have a park the place smoking won’t be allowed and can set up billboards to tell the general public about it. At the second there shall be 18 inexperienced areas, however the goal of Sanidade is that these are expanded with the adhesion of extra municipalities. In the case of seashores, 80 Galician municipalities have joined this system.
In which parks will smoking be prohibited?
In the province of A Coruña, the municipalities of Bergondo (Parque de Fiobre), Boiro (Parque A Cachada), Corcubión (Parque Campo de San Roque), Mazaricos (Parque Pino do Val), Neda (Albarón Park), Ponteceso (Campo do Río Park), Pontedeume (Olmo Park) and Porto do Son (Porto Sin Park).
In Lugo, Cospeito (Parque Periurbano Feira do Monte), Monforte de Lemos (Parque da Compañía) and Riotorto (Parque Centro Sociocultural) have joined. In Ourense there are two municipalities which have joined, A Merca (A Merca Park) and O Pereiro de Aguiar (Veiga de Abaixo Urbanization Park).
Finally, in Pontevedra, the municipalities of A Estrada (Alameda Municipal), Agolada (Parque do Auditorio), Moraña (Santa Lucía Municipal Park), Mos (Parque A Pesqueira) and Ribadumia (Piolla Park) may have smoke-free parks.
Denormalize tobacco use
The community of smoke-free parks goals to advertise a life with out tobacco and normalize its consumption. This final side is necessary, making an allowance for that there are often youngsters in these areas.
The municipalities that take part on this initiative purchase a sequence of commitments, amongst them the identification and signaling of the parks with supplies supplied by the Ministry of Health.
In addition, the city councils undertake to disseminate informative and consciousness brochures among the many inhabitants. Also, to develop actions aimed toward attaining a tobacco-free society, in addition to to help actions carried out within the college setting.
public well being technique
According to Sanidade, the figures point out that round 20% of younger individuals between the ages of 16 and 24 smoke day by day. “Getting these figures down is a precedence goal for the Galician well being division,” they level out.
Sanidade ensures that 75% of the individuals surveyed by this division are in favor of constant to extend the expansion of smoke-free public areas.
In this yr’s budgets, the Xunta has allotted 106 million euros to the Program for the safety and promotion of public well being, 15 million greater than final yr. The Xunta can be engaged on the event of a legislation for the prevention of addictions in minors.