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Spain: wedded to tobacco
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Spain has undergone extraordinary changes over the past half century, metamorphosing from a dictatorship governing a mainly peasant society to a thriving democracy whose economy ranges from tourism to heavy engineering, agriculture to aerospace. In a country with such a long and illustrious history, a fount of culture over many centuries, and which was at one time a colonial superpower governing most of Latin America, tradition is bound to be strong. And while progress often demands compromise and change where traditions are concerned, one area of tradition that remains remarkably intact is tobacco.
Not only does Spain persist in maintaining its status as one of the
black spots of Europe in terms of tobacco consumption and disease, but
the stuff is still apparently an unquestioned part of the social
fabric, too. A health advocate from the UK recently described her
astonishment at the wedding of a young Spanish woman who
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