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Genetics of Tobacco Use [PDF]

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2004
The worldwide prevalence of tobacco use is widespread, resulting in nearly 4.5 million deaths every year. Nicotine is addictive and has psychopharmacological effects that maintain the use of tobacco products. Several studies have documented a strong hereditary component to tobacco use.
Maserejian, Nancy Nairi   +1 more
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Tobacco Use Patterns [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Environmental and Public Health, 2012
The use of combustible tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe, bidis, kreteks, and hookah) among adults remains widespread around the world. Unless dramatic progress is made diminishing the initiation and increasing cessation of combustible tobacco product use, a billion preventable deaths will occur in the 21st century [1]. These deaths will
Timothy A. McAfee, Judy Kruger
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Qualidade do Ar em Bares de São Paulo/Brasil antes e depois da Lei de Ambientes Fechados Livres de Fumo

open access: yesRevista 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   +5 more
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Reactions on Twitter towards Australia's proposed import restriction on nicotine vaping products: a thematic analysis

open access: yesAustralian 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   +7 more
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services

open access: yesBMC 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   +6 more
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Sex differences in smoking cessation: a retrospective cohort study in a psychosocial care unit in Brazil

open access: yesTrends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2023
Introduction Despite the results of epidemiological and psychometric studies reporting comparable levels of tobacco dependence among males and females, some clinical studies have detected disparities.
Bruna Beatriz Sales Guimarães-Pereira   +11 more
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Tobacco Use Disorders [PDF]

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016
Tobacco use is a pervasive public health problem and the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States. This article reviews the epidemiology of tobacco use in youth, with a description of cigarettes, alternative tobacco product, and polytobacco use patterns among the general population and among adolescents with psychiatric
Jonathan D. Klein, Deepa R. Camenga
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US Tobacco 21 is Paving the Way for a Tobacco Endgame [PDF]

open access: yesTobacco Use Insights, 2021
The battle against tobacco usage is being fought on all fronts. On December 19, 2019, a measure to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 from 18 was passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. This instated banning the sale of all tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to anyone in the US under the age ...
Yanjun Liu   +5 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

open access: yesBMC 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   +4 more
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Reliability of the GAIN-SS, CRAFTT and PESQ screening instruments for substance use among South African adolescents

open access: yesSouth 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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