title: [Extent of law compliance and anti-smoking teaching at Spanish schools].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Knowing the degree of fulfillment of the anti tobacco legislation in Spanish schools and the influence that this has on the percentage of smoking pupils.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey was carried out among 3050 headmasters of Spanish schools, who were asked about different aspects of the fulfillment of the antitobacco laws in their schools and about the main characteristics of tobacco consumption in their centers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 80.9% of the headmasters claim that the fulfillment of the legislation is demanded in their centers, and only a 64.9% of them have posters in theirs schools that warn people about smoking ban. Anti tobacco teachings are imparted in a 82.2% of the schools where laws is demanded and only in a 64.8% where is not demanded. The percentage of teachers who, smoke in the presence of the pupils is of a 5.9% in the schools where anti tobacco legislation is demanded and a 12.9% where is not demanded. In the schools where anti tobacco teachings are imparted, a 29% of the pupils have tried tobacco, opposite a 31% who have tried in the schools where these teachings are not imparted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The, headmasters of the schools, as people in charge of watching over the fulfillment of the anti tobacco legislation in theirs schools, must demand the fulfillment of this one, because this measure is effective in order to improve the global functioning of the schools and to reduce the percentages of smoking pupils and teachers.
authors.affiliation: Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Salamanca. mibafe@gugu.usal.es
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hernández-Mezquita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barrueco
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Ruiz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torrecilla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González Bustos
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Dolores Plaza
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012907:Smoking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Grado de cumplimiento de la legislación e impartición de enseñanzas anti-tabaco en los centros escolares españoles.