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Prevalence of smoking and smokeless tobacco use during breastfeeding: A cross-sectional secondary data analysis based on 0.32 million sample women in 78 low-income and middle-income countries

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Smoking and smokeless tobacco use during the postpartum period is well studied in high-income countries, whereas low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack evidence.
Prashant Kumar Singh, Lucky Singh, Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Nishikant Singh, Chandan Kumar, Ankur Singh, Dhirendra N. Sinha, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Shalini Singh   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key factors in achieving increased tobacco taxation: Experience from the island of Saint Helena

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2020
Concerted efforts by government officials and technical assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Secretariat Knowledge Hub on Tobacco Taxation and Illicit Trade, resulted in an increase in tobacco
Angela Jackson-Morris, Laura Rossouw, Micheal K. Boachie   +2 more
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WHO FCTC article 5.3: promise but little progress [PDF]

Tobacco Control, 2014
Six years after the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) adopted strong implementation guidelines for the treaty's Article 5.3,1 that article's promise for protecting tobacco control policymaking from tobacco industry interference remains almost entirely unrealised.
Malone, Ruth E, Bialous, Stella Aguinaga
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Equity implications of tobacco taxation: results from WHO FCTC investment cases. [PDF]

Tob Control
BackgroundAcross time, geographies and country income levels, smoking prevalence is highest among people with lower incomes. Smoking causes further impoverishment of those on the lower end of the income spectrum through expenditure on tobacco and greater risk of ill health.MethodsThis paper summarises the results of investment case equity analyses for ...
Spencer G, Nugent R, Mann N, Hutchinson B, Ngongo C, Tarlton D, Small R, Webb D.   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Protection from exposure to second hand SLT use in public places - spitting a public health concern or a public nuisance?

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Until 1990, spitting was an offence in United Kingdom carrying a £5 fine. Spitting was also banned in other developed countries especially in Europe early in the 20 th Century as a preventive measure against tuberculosis and later to maintain
Amit Yadav, Kumar Chandan, Dhirendra N Sinha, Ravi Mehrotra, Anshika Chandra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urgent need for implementing media education campaigns and health warnings in Parties with high burden of SLT use

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The FCTC country reports indicate that 70% of the reporting parties have implemented Article 12 in their jurisdictions. The MPOWER Report 2015 also indicates that nearly 40% of the Parties conducted at least one anti-tobacco national mass ...
Amit Yadav, Dhirendra N Sinha, Kumar Chandan, Ravi Mehrotra   +3 more
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Calling on the European civil society to support global implementation of the WHO FCTC and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2016
The intervention of the Head of the Convention Secretariat will focus on how the European civil society could support global implementation of the WHO FCTC and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.
Vera Luiza Da Costa e Silva
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Brazil responses to the strategies used by the tobacco industry to resist Tobacco Control National Policy

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation According to the publication Tobacco industry interference with tobacco control (WHO, 2008), "The diversity of these strategies demonstrates that the mission to thwart tobacco control is global", and it is not ...
Ana Paula Leal Teixeira, Tania Cavalcante   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tobacco endgame in the WHO European Region: Feasibility in light of current tobacco control status

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction To assess the feasibility of developing World Health Organization (WHO) European Region countries’ goals and measures in line with tobacco endgame objectives, information on the current tobacco control context and capacity is needed. The aim
Adrián González-Marrón, Helena Koprivnikar, Judit Tisza, Zsuzsa Cselkó, Angeliki Lambrou, Armando Peruga, Biljana Kilibarda, Cristina Lidón-Moyano, Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Efstathios Papachristou, Emilia Nunes, Giulia Carreras, Giuseppe Gorini, Hipólito Pérez-Martín, Jose M. M. Martínez-Sánchez, Lorenzo Spizzichino, Maria Karekla, Maurice Mulcahy, Milena Vasic, Otto Ruokolainen, Romain Guignard, Sotiria Schoretsaniti, Tiina Laatikainen, Viêt Nguyen-Thanh, Hanna Ollila   +24 more
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Implementing effective pricing and taxation measures for prevention and control of smokeless tobacco

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background There are approximately 346 million adult smokeless tobacco (SLT) users in the world dominated by the South-East Asian region accounting for nearly 86%. India alone accounts for 67% of the SLT users in the world.
Amit Yadav, Rijo M John, Dhirendra N Sinha, Nigar Nargis, Ravi Mehrotra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source