Objective:

To identify the valid smoking and control prevention juridical norms and describe the actual situation in Cuba related to arrangement offer and demand for Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and MPOWER to World Health Organization.

Materials and methods:

Observational, descriptive and transversal study, employed methods: bibliographical revisions, content analysis.

Results:

29 juridical instruments were set up from 1976 to 2017. Seven of them have a national range and the other 22 were set for the Central Government Organizations with limited range. Smoking was set in 24 juridical normative and five references in general health. Cuba has the juridical norms relations for the reference measure to reduce tobacco demand and offer in Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Executes three arrangement to MPOWER.

Conclusions:

The valid juridical norms for smoking prevention and smoking control are spread out; the economical measure is not enough and does not have the purpose to diminish the cigarette offer and demand, mainly in adolescents and young people. Great part of this measure is inserted in the current Framework Convention on Tobacco Control juridical normative, however referent to MPOWER measures, Cuba carries out into the ones which not have an economical and legal character.

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