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Food and the prison environment: a meta-ethnography of global first-hand experiences of food, meals and eating in custody

Health & Justice, 2023
Background Prison foodways offer a unique opportunity to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of an underserved population, yet prison food is often rejected in favour of ‘junk’ food.
Clair Woods-Brown, Kate Hunt, Helen Sweeting   +2 more
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How tobacco companies in the United Kingdom responded to standardised packaging of cigarettes and rolling tobacco

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Tobacco packaging is a key promotional tool. The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations and Tobacco Products Directive requires all packs of cigarettes (factory-made and roll-your-own) in the United Kingdom to be drab brown and
Crawford Moodie, Danielle Mitchell, Kathryn Angus   +2 more
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Market Socialism or Socialization of the Market?

New Left Review, 1988
This article criticizes the approaches of Ernest Mandel and Alee Nove. The author holds that there are alternatives to the market and bureaucratic planning. She says that the price mechanism is an essential instrument for the coordination of a socialist economy; but that the mechanism should itself be socialized so that it will work in favor of ...
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Rifampicin resistance among the TB Patients in Pakistan: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Introduction: Rifampicin resistant (RR) tuberculosis (TB) is a key challenge in terms of high morbidity, mortality and socio-economic burden. Pakistan has the sixth highest RR TB prevalence globally.
Sobia Faisal, Syed Azizur Rab, Khalid F Muhammad, Ghulam Haider, Munir Alam, Furqan B Irfan   +5 more
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The Social Order of Markets [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
In this article I develop a proposal for the theoretical vantage point of the sociology of markets, focusing on the problem of the social order of markets. The initial premise is that markets are highly demanding arenas of social interaction, which can only operate if three inevitable coordination problems are resolved.
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Views of prison staff in Scotland on the potential benefits and risks of e-cigarettes in smoke-free prisons: a qualitative focus group study

BMJ Open, 2019
ObjectiveElectronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were introduced into all Scottish prisons in February 2018, some months after prisons began preparing in 2017 for a smoking ban implemented in November 2018.
Helen Sweeting, Kate Hunt, Sean Semple, Ashley Brown, Greig Logan   +4 more
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Anticipated responses to a hypothetical minimum price for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco: an online cross-sectional survey with cigarette smokers and ex-smokers in the UK

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives As tobacco companies can circumvent tax increases, a minimum retail price per-cigarette/per-gram of roll-your-own tobacco presents an additional mechanism for governments to reduce smoking.
Martine Stead, Crawford Moodie, Nathan Critchlow, Catherine Best   +3 more
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The future of social media in marketing [PDF]

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2019
AbstractSocial media allows people to freely interact with others and offers multiple ways for marketers to reach and engage with consumers. Considering the numerous ways social media affects individuals and businesses alike, in this article, the authors focus on where they believe the future of social media lies when considering marketing-related ...
Appel, Gil, Grewal, Lauren, Hadi, Rhonda, T. Stephen, Andrew   +3 more
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Feasibility and acceptability of e-cigarettes as an aid to quitting smoking among lung cancer patients: a pilot study

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Many patients diagnosed with lung cancer continue to smoke even though this can make their treatment less effective and increase side effects. E-cigarettes form part of the UK's tobacco harm reduction policy landscape and are, by far, smokers'
Allison Ford, Lesley Sinclair, Jennifer Mckell, Stephen Harrow, Jennifer Macphee, Andy Morrison, Linda Bauld   +6 more
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group average. The demand for a good may also
Grodner, Andrew, Kniesner, Thomas J, Bishop, John A.   +2 more
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