Story from Indonesia: the media advocacy strategy on restraining ´The Tobacco Bill Draft´
Background and challenges to implementation Strong tobacco industry interference continued to influence the implementation of adequate tobacco control policy in Indonesia.
Nina Samidi +2 more
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Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States hundreds of thousands initiate smoking each year, and millions live with smoking-related dis- eases. Many tobacco users discuss their habits and preferences on social media.
Allem, Jon-Patrick +7 more
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Background and challenges to implementation Tobacco is a significant public health concern in rural India. In Maharashtra, India's second largest state, 31.4% of adults report tobacco use (Global Adult Tobacco Survey India, 2009).
Rajashree Kadam +2 more
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Implementing tobacco control policies [PDF]
Tobacco currently kills 6 million people each year, increasingly in the low- and middle-income countries, which will bear the economic brunt of this epidemic. Tobacco control takes health professionals to very new destinations, away from the traditional curative medical model to mastering the corridors of power, using the media, and political lobbying ...
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Impact of Continuing Education on Clinicians' Self- Reported Knowledge of Tobacco Dependence and Tobacco Control Interventions [PDF]
Purpose: To assess a tobacco cessation continuing education (CE) program for Indiana dental and medical providers. Methods: A 26-item immediate post-CE survey and a 19-item 3-month follow-up survey assessed changes in participants’ self-reported ...
Coan, Lorinda, Romito, Laura M.
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Congressional Power to Control Cotton and Tobacco Production [PDF]
Identification of systems operating in closed loop has long been of prime interest in industrial applications. The problem offers many possibilities, and also some fallacies, and a wide variety of approaches have been suggested, many quite recently.
Forssell, Urban, Ljung, Lennart
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Prevalence and patterns of use of smokeless tobacco in Mumbai schools
Background Smokeless tobacco use among children is a serious problem in India. Smokeless tobacco products like gutkha, khaini, mawa and misheri and surrogate products like 'supari', 'pan masala' are commonly used by children in Mumbai. Maharashtra state
Rajashree Kadam +2 more
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Pro-tobacco marketing and anti-tobacco campaigns aimed at vulnerable populations: A review of the literature. [PDF]
INTRODUCTION:We reviewed research literature on pro-tobacco marketing and anti-tobacco campaigns targeting eight vulnerable populations to determine key findings and research gaps.
Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes +9 more
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The Tobacco Leaflet, February 2009. [PDF]
The Newsletter of the Division of Tobacco Use Prevention and ...
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Measuring Armenia's progress on the Tobacco Control Scale: an evaluation of tobacco control in an economy in transition, 2005–2009 [PDF]
Objectives: This study aimed to measure the 5-year progress in the implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Armenia by applying the Tobacco Control Scale, a rapid assessment tool developed to assess the strength of tobacco ...
Connolly, Gregory N, Movsisyan, Narine K
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