DOCTORS and nurses at health centres around the Balearic Islands attended 40.6 percent more people with smoking-related health problems in January this year than they did during the same month in 2010, the regional Health and Consumer Affairs ministry confirmed yesterday.
In specific figures, 1'845 patients sought help in January this year, compared to 1'312 during the same month in 2010.
The ministry said that the majority of appointments made by the public were as a result of ongoing advice given to smokers to take steps to give up the habit altogether. Such people, said a Balearic Health Service (Ib-Salut) spokesman yesterday, are aware that they should give up smoking, but for a wide variety of reasons, they cannot or choose not to attend an intensive course to help them abandon cigarettes once and for all.
The health centres where the number of people seeking help for smoking-related conditions rose the sharpest in January this year in comparison with 2010 were on Ibiza and Formentera. There were 291 cases registered, a significant increase of 59 percent on the 183 consultations booked in January 2010. In second place came Majorca, 396 people more in January this year, a rise of 37.8 percent, and Minorca in third place with a rise of 35.8 percent.
Health Minister Vicenç Thomas said yesterday that between November 2008 and November 2010, 93'000 people had received advice on smoking-related health conditions.
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