2021-12-15-世界卫生组织-Tobacco_El_Salvador_2021_country_profile_10页_362kb

El Salvador: WHO Country Profile Summary

• Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Ratified in 2014.
• Monitoring: Has recent and representative data on tobacco use for adults but not adolescents.
• Smoke-free Environments: Scored 10/10 - complete smoke-free legislation prohibits indoor offices, workplaces, restaurants, cafés, bars, public transport, and all other public places from smoking.
• Cessation Programmes: Has a toll-free quit line and various cessation support locations (health facilities, universities, pharmacies). Some cessation therapies (NRT, bupropion) are legally and fully available for purchase, but not cost-covered by national insurance or the social solidarity fund.
• Health Warnings: Mandates health warnings covering 50% of principal display areas on both front and rear of packages with required text, photographs, and a toll-free quit line number. Warnings are clear, specific, rotate, display harms, and are not misleading or substituted by figures/colors. Scored 10/10.
• Mass Media: Ran a national anti-tobacco campaign on TV/radio in 2018-19, tested with target audience, and used purchased airtime, though no evaluation was conducted.
• Advertising Bans: Enforces comprehensive bans on direct tobacco advertising (TV/radio, print, billboards, internet) and promotion sponsored by entities other than the tobacco industry. Scored 10/10 for direct bans.
• Taxation: High tobacco tax burden (over 46% of cigarette retail price), cigarettes are costly (requires 8.3% of GDP/capita for 100 packs), and affordability decreased between 2010-2020. Tobacco taxes fund health. No data available for other tobacco/non-cigarette products.
• Use of Earmarked Taxes: Excise taxes on tobacco fund health.