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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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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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Marketing Social Marketing in the Social Change Marketplace [PDF]

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 2002
Social marketing faces significant barriers to growth because there is no clear understanding of what the field is and what its role should be in relation to other approaches to social change. However, growth is possible through increases in social marketing's share of competition at the intervention, subject matter, product, and brand levels.
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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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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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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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The future of social media in marketing [PDF]

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2019
Abstract Social 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 ...
Appel, Gil, Grewal, Lauren, Hadi, Rhonda, T. Stephen, Andrew   +3 more
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The impact of leukocyte‐associated RNA retention on platelet RNA‐based cancer detection

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Platelets carry RNA signals that may help detect cancer, but platelet samples can also retain RNA from white blood cells. We found that this retained white blood cell signal did not significantly affect machine learning cancer classification, suggesting that the cancer‐related RNA signal in platelets is largely independent of leukocyte‐associated RNA ...
Michał Sieczczyński, Krzysztof Pastuszak, Anna Samelak‐Czajka, Zuzanna Cemka, Paulina Jackowiak, Tomasz Stefaniak, Sylwia Łapińska‐Szumczyk, Jacek Jassem, Anna J. Żaczek, Matthew T. Rondina, Myron G. Best, Sjors G. J. G. In 't Veld, Anna Supernat   +12 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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