outline the need to conduct research and implement effective policies that address a range of tobacco products1,2. While less ubiquitous than cigarettes, chewing tobacco use persists as a global public health challenge despite being incorporated in the FCTC statutes of 138 countries...
Next to alcohol, there is probably no substance used by man which has been so villified and condemned as tobacco. Certain intemperate temperance advocates from time to time have attempted to pass laws prohibiting the use of certain forms of the weed in various states, and in some instances ...
This is a comprehensive review on the harmful health effects of cigarette smoking. Tobacco smoking is a reprehensible habit that has spread all over the world as an epidemic. It reduces the life expectancy among smokers. It increases overall medical costs and contributes to the loss of productivit...
We then estimated the burden-of-proof risk function (BPRF) for each risk–outcome pair, as proposed by Zheng et al.29; the BPRF is a conservative risk function defined as the 5th quantile curve (for harmful risks) that reflects the smallest harmful effect at each level of exposure ...
cancer are attributable toTobacco smocking and equally 90% of peripheral vascular disease in non-diabetic population is attributable to Tobacco smoking, despite the health effect there is disturbing figures of people who take up smoking habit daily and increase level of failed quit smoking attempts. ...
This article uses state tobacco taxes as an instrument for life expectancy to estimate the effect on earnings per capita in a panel of almost 3000 counties in the United States over the period 1970 to 2000. In the first stage of the model, we find that a one dollar increase in state ...
Conclusions:The implementation of specific educational curricula on smoking dangers and on smoking cessation techniques might have the double effect of supporting students in quitting smoking and of properly preparing them for their future task of helping people to quit smoking. 展开 关键词: Electronic ...
Our objective was to test the effectiveness of various health warning messages and their location on waterpipe devices. METHODS: Adult waterpipe smokers from a large US university (N=367) completed an internet-based survey that tested the effect of text-only and pictorial health warning labels ...
Morphological and biological effects of maternal exposure to tobacco smoke on the feto-placental unit Active and passive maternal smoking has a damaging effect in every trimester of human pregnancy. Cigarette smoke contains scores of toxins which exert a di... E Jauniaux,GJ Burton - 《Early Human...
It argues that this genealogy sits uncomfortably with the usual story about economics and global health, which reduces the economisation of international health to neoliberal structural adjustment policies aimed at stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation and laments their detrimental effect on health....