Smoking is a major public health issue worldwide. The prevalence of smoking among healthcare workers is particularly concerning as they serve as role models for their patients and play a crucial role in combating the tobacco epidemic. Our survey analyzes the smoking habits, second-hand smoke ...
Abstract Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is widely recognized by the medical community and the general public as a major public health problem. Physicians and medical organizations share a public health duty to address this problem. Physicians and their professional organizations must contribu...
As a leading behavioral risk factor for numerous health outcomes, smoking is a major ongoing public health challenge. Although evidence on the health effects of smoking has been widely reported, few attempts have evaluated the dose–response relationship between smoking and a diverse range of health ...
Smoking is a major public health problem throughout the world. It constitutes the single leading cause of preventable death and disease [1] and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 5.4 million die every year from tobacco [2]. Among European countries, Greece ranks first in cigar...
the literature is lacking in program, practice, and theory development as well as in the planning, execution, and evaluation of programs targeting cigar smoking cessation. A clear need exists to promote early prevention of cigar smoking, and to incorporate cigar smoking cessation into other tobacco...
"While this is true for some diseases, such as cancer, other health risks such as heart attacks, lung disease and pregnancy complications respond quickly to changes in smoking behavior. So reducing the prevalence of smoking would be an excellent short-term investment in the physical ...
According to the WHO,million people died from smoking and 600 thousand from secondhand smoke every year. So smoking is banned in China in all public places both inside and outside from May 1 on. As is known to all, smoking is bad for people's health. It may cause many diseases such ...
Issue Views 7,465 Citations 21 0 Download PDF More CME & MOC Cite This Permissions Original Investigation Public Health August 1, 2022 Changes in Smoking Cessation–Related Behaviors Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic Priti Bandi, PhD1; Samuel Asare, PhD1; Anuja Majmundar, PhD, ...
A growing body of evidence has shown that smoking cigarettes increases the severity of COVID-19 (Gülsen et al., 2020; Karanasos et al., 2020; Patanavanich & Glantz, 2020; Reddy et al., 2021; Zhao et al., 2020) and governmental and public health agencies, such as the Food and Drug...
Studies focused on clinical outcomes in a dependent child or a new-born baby after their mother had given up smoking. These were excluded as the focus of our study was on how the financial incentive influenced the person attempting to give up smoking not the health outcomes of the people aro...