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Why is tobacco control progress in Indonesia stalled? - a qualitative analysis of interviews with tobacco control experts

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Indonesia shoulders a significant tobacco burden, with almost two million cases of tobacco-related illnesses and more than two hundred thousand tobacco-related deaths annually.
P. Astuti, M. Assunta, B. Freeman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Widespread violations of point-of-sale advertisements of tobacco products law around schools in India

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background In India, children and youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years are vulnerable to tobacco initiation. Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) India 2009 showed that 14.6% youth aged 13 to 15 years were tobacco users.
Tshering Bhutia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harm Minimization and Tobacco Control: Reframing Societal Views of Nicotine Use to Rapidly Save Lives.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 2018
Inhalation of the toxic smoke produced by combusting tobacco products, primarily cigarettes, is the overwhelming cause of tobacco-related disease and death in the United States and globally. A diverse class of alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS)
D. Abrams   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Secondhand smoke exposure at home in China

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background China took great efforts to protect people from secondhand smoke (SHS), including health education, smoke-free environment creating and smoke-free law promotion. Now, more and more people support smoke-free in public places.
Lin Xiao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors for quitting smoking in smoking cessation clinics among female smokers in China

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction The number of cessation clinics in China have been increasing ever since the Chinese government supported the establishment of smoking cessation clinics (SCCs) in each province in 2014.
Bingliang Lin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Smoking Behaviors Among Junior High School Students in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Despite the rising rate of smoking in sub-Sahara African countries, measures to control the tobacco epidemic have been limited to developed countries.
Sofo, S. (Seidu)   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Tobacco consumption prevalence among nursing students and their knowledge in tobacco addiction: ECTEC study

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Nurses can positively influence in tobacco prevention and treatment. It is during undergraduate-years when students should acquire knowledge, and skills in smoking cessation; however, nursing students' knowledge has not been yet assessed in ...
Antoni Baena   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the drug situation in Lithuania

open access: yesJournal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2022
The application of restrictive public health measures because of COVID-19 has affected all areas of life, including drug use, drug market, and the response of law enforcement and health, education, and social care institutions to the drug phenomenon.
Evelina Pridotkienė   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Material of support to community health agents for the tobacco approach of "family health" in Brazil

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation In Brazil, the Community Health Agent (ACS), inserted in the Basic Attention Program, due to the characteristics of its work, maintains a close relationship with families, which is especially conducive to an ...
Vera Borges   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tobacco control and Healthy China 2030

open access: yesTobacco Control, 2018
Background The Healthy China 2030 strategy sets ambitious targets for China’s policy-makers, including a decrease in the smoking rate from 27.7% in 2015 to 20% by 2030.
M. Goodchild, R. Zheng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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