Cessation coverage in Argentina: A qualitative study about its barriers and facilitating factors

The barriers create a vicious circle: members of the health care system do not fully appreciate the issues related to smoking, which leads to an inappropriate set of priorities resulting in a lack of preventive policies and insufficient health practices and interventions to curb the problem. However, this situation is changing since the facilitating factors are gaining strength, an observation supported by the changes witnessed in Argentina over the last few years.