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To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-6431.2006.00505.x Byline: Angel Lopez Nicolas (1), Jaime Pinilla Dominguez (2) Keywords: Cigarettes; taxation; health; Spain Abstract: Abstract This paper describes the causes that generate the relatively high - among comparable OECD countries - prevalence of tobacco consumption in Spain. It evaluates the current policy interventions geared towards reducing incidence and prevalence. It argues that, despite a recent major breakthrough in legislation on advertising and consumption in public places, one of the major shortcomings of current policies is the lack of an effective fiscal policy. This lack of effectiveness is explained by some idiosyncrasies of the Spanish cigarette market that call for specific measures. Author Affiliation: (1)Department of Economics and Business and CRES, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Departamento de Economia, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain (2)Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain Article note: Angel L. Nicolas, Departamento de Economia, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena. Paseo Alfonso XIII, 50. 30203 Cartagena, Spain. E-mail: angel.lopez@upct.es