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Smoking and prevention

Respiratory Medicine, 1991
Cigarette smoking is an important cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world (1). Young people and adults take up the habit despite their awareness of its potentially harmful effects. These include chronic bronchitis, emphysema, cor pulmonale, respiratory failure, acute myocardial infarction and peripheral vascular disease.
K. S. Sher   +3 more
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Prevention of Smoking

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
To the Editor.— In a recent COMMENTARY by Richard V. Ebert, MD (240:2159, 1978), he urges physicians to try to reduce the grim toll of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema by encouraging their smoking patients to abstain from cigarettes. He suggests that this approach may be more productive than trying to induce young people to avoid the ...
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The Economics of Smoking Prevention

2018
Smoking prevention has been a key component of health policy in developed nations for over half a century. Public policies to reduce the physical harm attributed to cigarette smoking, both externally and to the smoker, include cigarette taxation, smoking bans, and anti-smoking campaigns, among other publicly conceived strategies to reduce smoking ...
Erik Nesson   +3 more
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Adolescent Smoking: Onset and Prevention

Pediatrics, 1979
Despite the systemic and conceptual barriers to effective preventive actions, some progress is beginning to be made in preventing adoption of self-destructive behaviors during adolescence. Application of the concept of psychological inoculation against social environmental factors that influence young people to adopt unhealthy life-styles is showing ...
Cheryl L. Perry   +2 more
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Legislation and Smoking Prevention

2015
Legislation has been at the forefront of public health since Victorian times. With the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the WHO established that legislation is the most powerful means of combating the tobacco epidemic. In this chapter, we explore why legislation is necessary and effective for reducing tobacco consumption and the ...
Ehsan Latif, Valerie Warner
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Smoking cessation in cancer prevention

Toxicology, 2001
Tobacco smoking is the largest preventable risk factor for morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. WHO estimates that tobacco will become the largest single health problem by 2020, causing an estimated 8.4 million deaths annually. Tobacco has central importance in the etiology of cancers of the lung, head and neck, urinary tract, and ...
Paul Kleihues   +2 more
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