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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation The labour force participation rate is over 60 percent in Hong Kong and most of the employees spend 8 to 10 hours daily in their workplaces.
Antonio Kwong, Vienna Lai
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Analyzing whether workplace smoking bans can reduce the probability of smoking [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The rapid increase of smoking-related diseases and deaths globally is driving us to find an effective approach to reduce the smoking rate. This study aims to determine whether indoor smoking bans at workplaces can effectively reduce the smoking rate.
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation The Hong Kong Government proposed to enhance pictorial health warnings (PHW), prominently increasing the size to 85%, since May 2015. Opposition and interference of tobacco industry (TI) was fierce.
Antonio Kwong, Vienna Lai
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Tailor-made smoke-free programme to clear the myths of smoking among Hong Kong elder people
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation In Hong Kong, over 20% of the 641,300 daily smokers aged 60 years or above. Public's awareness on smoking hazards has increased in recent years.
Antonio Kwong, Vienna Lai
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Tobacco tax and the illicit trade in tobacco products in New Zealand
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015 Objectives: To estimate the size of illegal tobacco trade and consumption and assess the impact of tobacco tax on the illicit tobacco market in New Zealand (NZ). Methods: Data on the import and seizure of legal and illegal tobacco in NZ was obtained from
Ali Ajmal, Veng Ian U
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Smoking prevalence and smoking behavior change among the soldiers in the Korean military
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Republic of Korea has an obligatory military service. All Korean men in their 20s are obliged to serve the military for 21 months. The purpose of this study was to identify smoking prevalence among the Korean military and to understand how ...
Jinyoung Kim, Sungkyu Lee
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A Bottom-up method Towards the Automatic and Objective Monitoring of Smoking Behavior In-the-wild using Wrist-mounted Inertial Sensors [PDF]
, 2021 The consumption of tobacco has reached global epidemic proportions and is characterized as the leading cause of death and illness. Among the different ways of consuming tobacco (e.g., smokeless, cigars), smoking cigarettes is the most widespread. In this paper, we present a two-step, bottom-up algorithm towards the automatic and objective monitoring of
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2023 Introduction Although e-cigarettes can be an effective form of nicotine substitution for adults attempting to quit smoking, their use among children and young people is a concern.
Parris J. Williams +5 more
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FoSp: Focus and Separation Network for Early Smoke Segmentation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Early smoke segmentation (ESS) enables the accurate identification of smoke sources, facilitating the prompt extinguishing of fires and preventing large-scale gas leaks. But ESS poses greater challenges than conventional object and regular smoke segmentation due to its small scale and transparent appearance, which can result in high miss detection rate
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the most commonly used tobacco product among U.S youth. We used cross-sectional, nationally representative data of U.S.
Satomi Odani +3 more
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