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Economic impact evaluation of tobacco control legislation in Georgia

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
Introduction The Parliament of Georgia adopted comprehensive amendments (prohibition of smoking in all public closed facilities with few exemptions, total ban of tobacco advertisement, promotion and sponsorship, increase health warnings up to 65% of ...
George Bakhturidze, Nana Pekrishvili
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Qualidade do Ar em Bares de São Paulo/Brasil antes e depois da Lei de Ambientes Fechados Livres de Fumo

Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia, 2011
Introdução: O fumo passivo é atualmente considerado o principal poluente em ambientes internos, sem nível seguro de exposição. Objetivo: O presente estudo visa a quantificar os níveis de nicotina no ar em bares de São Paulo, Brasil, antes e depois da lei
Mônica Andreis, Jessica Elf, Paula Johns, Adriana Carvalho, Jie Yuan, Benjamin Apelberg   +5 more
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, numerous behavior change, risk-reduction, and biomedical interventions have been developed and tested. While some of these interventions have shown to be efficacious in randomized trials, it often takes
Brittni N. Howard, Richard Van Dorn, Bronwyn J. Myers, William A. Zule, Felicia A. Browne, Tara Carney, Wendee M. Wechsberg   +6 more
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Adolescent use of flavored non-tobacco oral nicotine products.

, 2022
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Flavored non-tobacco oral nicotine products (eg, nicotine pouches and nontherapeutic nicotine gum, lozenges, tablets, gummies), are increasingly marketed in the United States. Prevalence of non-tobacco oral nicotine product use
Sussman, Steve Y, Harlow, Alyssa F, Unger, Jennifer B, Cho, Junhan, Han, Dae-Hee, Wong, Melissa, Vogel, Erin A, Tackett, Alayna P, Barrington-Trimis, Jessica L, Cockburn, Myles G, Leventhal, Adam M   +10 more
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Aggressive behaviour among drug-using women from Cape Town, South Africa: ethnicity, heavy alcohol use, methamphetamine and intimate partner violence

BMC Women's Health, 2017
Background Women have generally been found to be the victims of violence, but scant attention has been paid to the characteristics of women who perpetrate aggression and violence. In South Africa, violence is a prevalent societal issue, especially in the
Tara Carney, Bronwyn Myers, Tracy L. Kline, Kim Johnson, Wendee M. Wechsberg   +4 more
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Reliability of the GAIN-SS, CRAFTT and PESQ screening instruments for substance use among South African adolescents

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2016
Introduction: Screening for adolescent substance use can assist with the early identification of substance-related problems and guide the provision of appropriate services. As such, psychometrically sound screening tools are needed. The aim of this study
Tara Carney, Bronwyn Myers, Johann Louw
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Reactions on Twitter towards Australia's proposed import restriction on nicotine vaping products: a thematic analysis

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: In June 2020, the Australian Government announced that personal importation of nicotine vaping products (NVP) would be prohibited, pending a 12‐month classification and regulation review by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Tianze Sun, Carmen C.W. Lim, Coral Gartner, Jason P. Connor, Wayne D. Hall, Janni Leung, Daniel Stjepanović, Gary C.K. Chan   +7 more
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Prevalence and sociodemographic determinants of tobacco use among adults in Pakistan: findings of a nationwide survey conducted in 2012. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable mortality. The World Health Organization recommends that countries should monitor tobacco use regularly.
David A Leon, Gilani, Sara Ijaz, Leon, David A, Sara Ijaz Gilani   +3 more
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The Young Women’s Health CoOp in Cape Town, South Africa: Study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial for adolescent women at risk for HIV

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background South Africa remains the global epicentre of HIV infection, and adolescent women have the highest incidence of HIV in the country. South Africa also has high rates of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use, violence, and gender inequality.
Wendee M. Wechsberg, Felicia A. Browne, Tara Carney, Bronwyn Myers, Alexandra Minnis, Robert MacDonald, Jacqueline W. Ndirangu, Leslie B. Turner, Brittni N. Howard, Nathaniel Rodman   +9 more
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Part I: Moving in the right direction: Tobacco packaging and labeling in the Americas

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction Article 13 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommends a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) including at the point-of-sale (POS). In Feb.
Ernesto M Sebrie, Eric Crosbie, Olufemi Erinoso, Sara Perez   +3 more
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