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Financing opportunities in the time of COVID-19: Re-examining cigarette taxes with a new scorecard. [PDF]

open access: yesTob Induc Dis, 2021
Thompson F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trans-border Advocacy Network in Tobacco Control: The Adoption of WHO-FCTC Best Practices into Domestic Laws in Ghana and Malawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The study investigates the politics characterizing the adoption of tobacco control policy in Ghana and Malawi as a way of contributing to political science literature.
Brenya, Edward
core   +1 more source

Assessing point of sale violations in Delhi for strategic advocacy on TAPS ban

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation The rules banning Point of Sale (PoS) Advertising under COTPA 2003 were stayed by Bombay High Court in 2005-6 and the Government of India did not make any particular efforts to get the stay vacated.
Binoy Mathew
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics and factors associated with tobacco use: findings of Kenya Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 2014

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Tobacco is a major risk factor for pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) has been conducted in 25 countries. Kenya conducted its first GATS in 2014.
Valerian Mwenda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking the health interest of the Sin Tax Reform Law: thru the development and implementation of a Sin Tax Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation The Sin Tax Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework was developed in compliance with the Philippine Sin Tax Reform Law that was enacted to reform the existing law which has allowed the tobacco industry ...
Frances Rose Mamaril   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global public policy: Does the new venue for transnational tobacco control challenge the old way of doing things? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The World Health Organization has fostered a new global public policy-the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). Until the 1980s, tobacco control was the sole preserve of states. Now, most countries accept the transnational nature of policy. We
Cairney, Paul   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Analyzing current and future levels of cigarette affordability under the Philippine Sin Tax Law (RA 10351)

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The five-year old Philippine Sin Tax Law (RA 10351) is recognized as a global model. With the upcoming Congressional review, which can be a venue to either weaken or proactively improve the law, it is crucial to analyze its current and future
Madeiline Joy Aloria   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does free or lower cost smoking cessation medication stimulate quitting? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands and United Kingdom Surveys

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Free or lower cost cessation medication is reported more often as a trigger to think about quitting by smokers with low education and/or income, but it is not clear whether this leads to actual quitting of smoking.
F. A. Van den Brand   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Event volunteering as an educational resource in business tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The growth of the business tourism industry globally has catalysed the need for responsive academic programmes to cultivate skilled graduates for the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) sector.
Esti Venske
core   +1 more source

Cigarette smoking and tuberculosis in Cambodia: findings from a national sample [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background Cambodia has very high rates of tuberculosis and smoked tobacco use among adults. Efforts to control both tobacco use and tuberculosis in Cambodia need to be informed by nationally representative data.
Daravuth Yel   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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