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Offenders’ perceptions of the UK prison smoking ban [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose Despite overall reductions in levels of smoking in the UK, rates of offender smoking remain high. In 2016, it was announced that prisons in England and Wales would gradually introduce a smoking ban.
Davies, Glyn +5 more
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Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2016
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2015 The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that the burden of death and disease from tobacco use in the United States is overwhelmingly caused by cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products (1). Cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among
Ahmed Jamal +6 more
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Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to cigarette smoking among school students in Pakistan: secondary analysis of Global Youth Tobacco Survey [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Susceptibility to smoke has been recognized as a strong predictor of smoking experimentation and taking up regular smoking habit. The identification of smoking susceptible individuals and its determinants is important in the efforts to ...
Aslam, Syeda Kanwal +3 more
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Starting young? children’s experiences of trying smoking during pre-adolescence [PDF]
, 2008 Although the risks smoking poses to health are now well known, many young people continue to take up the habit. While numerous crosssectional studies of adolescents have identified correlates of smoking initiation, much less prospective, longitudinal ...
Dugdill, L +4 more
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Social class and smoking at age 15: the effect of different definitions of smoking [PDF]
, 2001 Aim : To explore whether the association between social class and smoking among teenagers varies according to the definition of smoking adopted. Design, setting and participants : A survey of 2196 15-year-olds in 43 secondary schools in the West of ...
Sweeting, H., West, P.
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Smoke and thriving: An ecological study [PDF]
, 2015 Studies suggest a possible inverse correlation between smoking attitude and happiness levels. The present paper investigates the relation between males and females smoking prevalence and happiness levels in 155 countries worldwide.
Grassi, Maria Caterina +2 more
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Social capital and cigarette smoking among Latinos in the United States [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents the results of analyses conducted to examine if social capital indicators were associated with current cigarette smoking and with quitting smoking among a national representative sample of Latinos living in the United States. Data are
Delva, Jorge, Horner, Pilar, Li, Shijian
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Quitting Smoking Among Adults - United States, 2000-2015.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2017 Quitting cigarette smoking benefits smokers at any age (1). Individual, group, and telephone counseling and seven Food and Drug Administration-approved medications increase quit rates (1-3). To assess progress toward the Healthy People 2020 objectives of
Stephen D. Babb +4 more
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Economic evaluation of smoking cessation in Ontario's regional cancer programs. [PDF]
, 2018 Quitting smoking after a diagnosis of cancer results in greater response to treatment and decreased risk of disease recurrence and second primary cancers.
Cameron, Erin +10 more
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British Journal of Cancer, 1982 Before 1980 the argument that passive smoking was a serious health hazard was rather tenuous. It was claimed that it produced allergic reactions, impaired driving ability, reduced exercise tolerance in patients with cardiorespiratory disease and increased the risk of bronchitis and pneumonia in first-year children.
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