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Incorporating a structural approach to reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases. [PDF]
Global Health, 2018 Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over two-thirds of deaths worldwide, and global efforts to address NCDs have accelerated. Current prevention and control efforts rely primarily on individual behavior/lifestyle approaches that ...
Yang JS, Mamudu HM, John R.
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"Efforts to Reprioritise the Agenda" in China: British American Tobacco's Efforts to Influence Public Policy on Secondhand Smoke in China. [PDF]
PLoS Med, 2008 Monique Muggli and colleagues study British American Tobacco (BAT) internal documents and find that from the mid 1990s BAT pursued a strategy aimed at influencing the public debate on secondhand smoke in ...
Muggli ME +4 more
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Tobacco use amongst out of school adolescents in a Local Government Area in Nigeria. [PDF]
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 2010 Introduction Out-of-school adolescents are often neglected when planning for tobacco prevention programmes whereas they are more vulnerable. Few studies exist in Nigeria about their pattern of tobacco use to serve as the basis for effective policy ...
Adebiyi AO +3 more
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Local smoke-free policy development in Santa Fe, Argentina. [PDF]
Tob Control, 2010 ObjectiveTo describe the process of approval and implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free law in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, between 2005 and 2009.MethodsReview of the Santa Fe smoke-free legislation, articles published in local newspapers ...
Sebrié EM, Glantz SA.
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Socio-economic status as predictors of initiation and persistence of youth smoking in Mizoram
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Mizoram have the highest tobacco prevalence in India with half of the population using some forms of tobacco. GATS 2009-2010 report 67.2% of people in Mizoram use tobacco. In this century, nations have experienced an epidemic of diseases that
.Lalrintluangi Chhakchhuak +2 more
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Tobacco Control, 2015 February 2015 marked 10 years since the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) entered into force. While enormous progress has been made in curtailing the epidemic, the epicentre continues to be in countries that can ...
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Monitoring and exposing tobacco industry tactics around Conference of Parties (COP 7)
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Section 5.3 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) does not allow any kind of promotion of tobacco products or its use. Article 5.3 of WHO-FCTC requires parties to protect the development and
Binoy Mathew, Bhavna Mukhopadhyay
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background While smoking cessation reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), quitting also increases fasting serum glucose (FSG) levels. The effect of post-cessation FSG elevation on cardiovascular disease is unknown.
Seulggie Choi +6 more
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Monitoring of compliance with the national tobacco advertising law in 11 cities in China
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background China's revised national Advertising Law went into effect on September 1, 2015. It prohibits tobacco advertising to minors in any form and comprehensively bans tobacco advertising in public places, public transportation and outdoor areas.
Guihua Xu
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background India has been a Party of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since more than a Decade, National Tobacco-Control Program (NTCP), of India is in place.
Heena Shaikh, Kishor Mogulluru
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