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Background Around 40% of children worldwide are exposed to tobacco smoke by their parents. Interventions to reduce exposure have limited success. Parental reports often do not match biomarker reports of children's exposure.
Vicki Myers Gamliel +2 more
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Three versions of Perceived Stress Scale: validation in a sample of Chinese cardiac patients who smoke [PDF]
Background Smoking causes heart disease, the major cause of death in China and Hong Kong. Stress is one major trigger of smoking and relapse, and understanding stress among smoking cardiac patients can therefore help in designing effective interventions ...
Doris YP Leung +2 more
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Cigarette affordability and impacts of 2014 tax reform in Vietnam
Background Vietnam revised the Excise Tax Law in 2014 leading to an increase of the cigarette excise tax rate from 65% of ex-factory price to 70% in January 2016, and to 75% in January 2019. The government plans to make other excise tax reforms in 2018.
Thi Tuyet Tran +5 more
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Promoting cessation and a tobacco free future: willingness of pharmacy students at the University of Lagos, Nigeria [PDF]
Background Tobacco use is projected to cause nearly 450 million deaths worldwide during the next 50 years. Health professionals can have a critical role in reducing tobacco use.
Bolajoko A Aina +3 more
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Financial incentives for smoking cessation [PDF]
Quitting smoking is easier if you receive a reward for it. This research shows that employees refrained from smoking better if they received a reward in combination with quit-smoking training at work.
van den Brand, Floortje Anne
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Background and challenges to implementation With tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion (2003) and point of sale displays (2015) prohibited, tobacco packaging had become the main source of promotion in the UK.
Ailsa Rutter +3 more
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Cigarette smoking and reasons for leaving school among school dropouts in South Africa
Background School dropouts are those between 13-20 years old, have not completed their schooling and are not currently enrolled in school. School dropouts are at heightened risk of tobacco use and developing tobacco related disease and disability ...
Rachana Desai +4 more
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Transnational advocacy networks confront transnational tobacco marketing [PDF]
Version of RecordWorld Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a major blow to the worldwide expansion strategies and marketing practices of transnational tobacco companies.
Mukherjee, Amit, Tyrrell, Brian
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Punching above their weight through policy learning : tobacco control policies in Ireland [PDF]
Ireland’s tobacco control policy today is recognised as one of the strongest in Europe and the world, largely on the basis of its first-in-the world general workplace smoking ban in 2004.
Studlar, Donley T.
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Does change in perception of tobacco risk affect smokers' behaviour? - An empirical analysis
Background Information dissemination on harmful effects of tobacco has always been a major tool for reducing tobacco consumption in all countries. This paper studies how a change in the Perception of Tobacco Risk (PTR) affects the attitude of smokers ...
Iftekharul Huq +3 more
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