Engaging youth in anti-tobacco awareness campaigns in India
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Tobacco use among school children is a serious problem in India. Lack of proper guidance, urge to imitate elders, peer pressure, misconceptions, easy availability of variety of tobacco products and innovative ...
Rajashree Kadam +2 more
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Retailers' perspectives on selling tobacco in a low-income San Francisco neighbourhood after California's $2 tobacco tax increase. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundCalifornia's tobacco tax increased by $2.00 per pack in 2017. Although such increases are among the most effective tobacco control strategies, little is known about their impact from the perspective of corner store owners in low-income ...
Chavez, Gladis +5 more
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Building capacity for tobacco-free schools in rural Maharashtra: the Salaam Mumbai model
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Tobacco is a significant public health risk faced by youth in rural India. In rural Maharashtra, up to 45.4% of youth use tobacco.
Rajashree Kadam +2 more
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The Lancet, 2013 For the purpose of this article, Asia refers to WHO's combined South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions and thus includes Australia and New Zealand. Asia has the highest number of tobacco users and is the prime target of transnational tobacco companies. The future of global tobacco control rests in this region and the challenges are clear.
Mackay, Judith +2 more
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Short-Interval Cortical Inhibition and Rhetoric and the Law, Or the Law of Rhetoric: How Countries Oppose Novel Tobacco Control Measures at The World Trade Organization [PDF]
, 2016 The tobacco industry has developed an extensive array of strategies and arguments to prevent or weaken government regulation. These strategies and arguments are well documented at the domestic level.
Drope, Jeffrey +2 more
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Filling in the Blanks on Reducing Tobacco Product Addictiveness in the FCTC Partial Guidelines for Articles 9 & 10 [PDF]
, 2014 The existing Partial Guidelines for Implementation of Articles 9 & 10 of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control includes a strategy for regulating tobacco products to reduce their attractiveness, but does not yet provide any guidance for ...
Lindblom, Eric N.
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Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2005 The 18-24 age group is experiencing a greater increase in smoking prevalence than any other age group in recent years. This article presents a case study of how a California community college successfully implemented a comprehensive tobacco control program to counter pro-tobacco influences, to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, and to increase the ...
Sally Bratton, Sang Leng Trieu
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Waterpipe tobacco smoking legislation and policy enactment: a global analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Objective (1) To review how current global tobacco control policies address regulation of waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS). (2) To identify features associated with enactment and enforcement of WTS legislation.
El Kadi, L +3 more
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Prevalence of e-cigarette in China: preliminary findings from two surveys
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background China is the world´s largest tobacco producer and consumer, in recent years has become the world´s largest producer of e-cigarette. According to media reports, China-made e-cigarette is mainly exported to foreign countries, and e-cigarette ...
Guoze Feng, Yi Nan, Yuan Jiang
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It’s time we made smoking history! Tobacco control in Malta : the present and the future [PDF]
, 1999 Tobacco products have no safe level of consumption. They are the only legal consumer products that cause ill health and premature death when used exactly as the manufacturer intends.
Sammut, Mario R.
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