Pérez-Ríos, MónicaAhluwalia, Jasjit S.Guerra Tort, CarlaGarcía, GuadalupeRey Brandariz, JuliaMouriño Castro, NereaTeijeiro, AnaCasal Fernández, RaquelGalán, IñakiVarela Lema, María LeonorRuano Raviña, Alberto2024-04-302024-04-302024Pérez-Ríos, M., Ahluwalia, J., Guerra-Tort, C. et al. Towards stronger tobacco control policies to curb the smoking epidemic in Spain. Clin Transl Oncol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-024-03385-9http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33741Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke pose a significant risk to the health of populations. Although this evidence is not new, the commitment of countries to implement laws aimed at controlling consumption and eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke is uneven. Thus, in North America or in Europe, locations like California or Ireland, are pioneers in establishing policies aimed at protecting the population against smoking and secondhand smoke. Identifying measures that have worked would help control this important Public Health problem in other countries that are further behind in tobacco control policies. In Spain, there has been almost 15 years of little political action in legislation oriented to control the tobacco epidemic. If we want to achieve the tobacco endgame, new legislative measures must be implemented. In this paper, we have elucidated tobacco control policies that could be implemented and show how different countries have done soengAtribución 4.0 InternacionalThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Spain Tobacco Smoke Secondhand smoke Health policy Smoke-free policyjournal article10.1007/s12094-024-03385-91699-3055open access