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The filter fraud: debunking the myth of "Safer" as a key new strategy of tobacco control

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation Although efforts have been made to eliminate the use of misleading descriptors such as "low-tar", "lights" and "mild" from cigarette marketing, the elimination of the cellulose acetate filter-which is on 95% of
Alan Blum, Thomas Novotny
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Perceived effectiveness of larger graphic health warnings and plain packaging among urban and rural adolescents and adults of Delhi and Telangana, India

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Plain packaging has been demonstrated to be effective in Australia, where it led to increased quit attempts among adult smokers. Graphic Health Warnings (GHWs) on tobacco packs in India have increased from 40% to 85%.
Tina Rawal, Gaurang P. Nazar, Sindhu Ravishankar, Nathan Grills, Premila Webster, Monika Arora   +5 more
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Effect of seeing e-cigarettes in small shops on probability of e-cigarette experimentation by 1 year follow up in adolescents in Scotland, UK

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Previous research has found that small shops are frequently visited by young people and product exposures in this environment influence their health-related behaviours.
Catherine Best, Farhana Haseen, Dorothy Currie, Gozde Ozakinci, Anne Marie Mackintosh, Sally Haw   +5 more
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Flavor capsule cigarettes in six countries: availability by brand, variant and flavor

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Flavor capsule cigarettes, containing capsules inside the filters that smokers can press to release a liquid that flavors smoke, are growing in popularity.
Jennifer Brown, Joanna Cohen, Katherine Smith   +2 more
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Association of tobacco control policies with cigarette smoking among school age youth 13 to 15 in the Philippines, 2000 - 2015

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background In 2003, the Philippines passed extensive tobacco control legislation, including minimum legal sales age (MLSA) laws, textual warning labels (TWL), and smoke-free public places (SFPP), and pricing strategies.
Rene A Arrazola, Lauren M Dutra, Indu B Ahluwalia, Andrew B Seidenberg, Ramon Theodore A De Guzman, Florante Trinidad   +5 more
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Tobacco treatment education for health care professionals in behavioral health settings in Kansas, USA

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation Prevalence of tobacco use and mortality from tobacco-related diseases are disproportionately higher among individuals with mental health and substance use disorders compared to the general population.
Babalola Faseru, Amanda Grodie, Kimber Richter   +2 more
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Prevalence and characteristics of e-cigarette use among adults in Malaysia

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background E-cigarette (e-cig) use has become a worldwide phenomenon since 2010. This study aims to determine the prevalence of e-cig use, distribution and characteristics among Malaysian adults. Malaysia is a typical Asian country.
Jamalludin Ab Rahman, Mohamad Haniki Nik Mohamed, Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusoff, Norny Syafinaz Ab Rahman, Samsul Draman, Mira Kartiwi, Balkish Mahadir, Tahir Aris   +7 more
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Indonesian adolescents' reactions to different text and image types of pictorial health warnings for cigarette packages

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Research is needed on which characteristics of pictorial health warning (PHW) are most likely to reduce tobacco use among Indonesian adolescents. We assessed the effects of different text and image types of PHWs on emotional, motivational and
Dien Anshari, James Thrasher
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Exposure of smoking scenes in popular movies among Koreans from 2006-2015

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background To identify a trend of smoking scene exposures in popular movies among the Koreans and to investigate where and when the smoking scenes were appeared.
Sungkyu Lee, Jinyoung Kim, Yu-Jin Paek
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Flavored smokeless tobacco use in India and Bangladesh

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Flavor improves palatability of smokeless tobacco products (SLT) and attracts youth. There is limited evidence on flavored SLT use in India and Bangladesh, the two high SLT consuming countries in the world. This study maps the use of flavored
Sagarika Das
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