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Journal 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
McAfee, Timothy A., Kruger, Judy
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Child 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
Deepa R, Camenga, Jonathan D, Klein
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Tobacco packaging design for reducing tobacco use [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017 Tobacco use is the largest single preventable cause of death and disease worldwide. Standardised tobacco packaging is an intervention intended to reduce the promotional appeal of packs and can be defined as packaging with a uniform colour (and in some cases shape and size) with no logos or branding, apart from health warnings and other government ...
McNeill, Ann +5 more
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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 +5 more
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Online Tobacco Marketing and Subsequent Tobacco Use [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2018 BACKGROUND:Nearly 2.9 million US adolescents engaged with online tobacco marketing in 2013 to 2014. We assess whether engagement is a risk factor for tobacco use initiation, increased frequency of use, progression to poly-product use, and cessation.METHODS:We analyzed data from 11 996 adolescents sampled in the nationally representative, longitudinal ...
Samir, Soneji +6 more
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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 +6 more
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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 +7 more
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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 +4 more
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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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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 +9 more
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