title: [Tobacco industry strategies to attract young smokers in Spain: a review of companies' internal documents].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tobacco companies' strategies to promote tobacco use and undermine tobacco control policy are key in tobacco use among young people. The analysis of tobacco companies' internal documents can be instrumental in identifying those strategies, improving social support for tobacco control policy, and planning public health interventions. The goal of this study was to identify and analyze internal documents related to the activities of tobacco companies during the 1980s and 90s aimed at promoting smoking in young Spaniards.
  
  
  METHODS
  Electronic search by key word of tobacco industry documents held at the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More than 1,000 documents were identified and reviewed, including letters, messages, memos, and other documents. Seventeen documents related to the objective of the study are analyzed and discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tobacco companies funded and conducted activities aimed at maintaining high smoking incidence and prevalence in Spain. These activities, which included research, cigarette and packaging design, promotion, and social and political manipulation, may have had an impact on current levels of tobacco use in Spain.
authors.affiliation: Translational Hispanic Health Research Initiative, College of Education, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas 79968, USA. fsoto3@utep.edu
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Soto Mas
authors.forename: Holly E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: Esteve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fernández
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003132:Commerce; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking; D019460:Tobacco Industry; D055815:Young Adult