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Cross-country comparison of waterpipe use: nationally representative data from 13 low and middle-income countries from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) [FREE FULL TEXT]

Monitoring of waterpipe use at a national level will better enable countries to target tobacco control interventions such as education campaigns about the negative health effects of waterpipe use.
Tobacco Control
added Jun 13, 2013 10:23
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An empirical analysis of cigarette demand in Argentina

Conclusion Econometric analyses of cigarette consumption and their relationship with cigarette price and income can provide valuable information for developing cigarette price policy.
Tobacco Control
added Jun 13, 2013 09:38
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The ‘diverse, dynamic new world of global tobacco control’? An analysis of participation in the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FREE FULL TEXT]

Conclusions Developing countries face particular barriers to participating in the COP process, and their engagement in global tobacco control is likely to diminish in the absence of specific measures to support their effective participation.
Tobacco Control
added Jun 11, 2013 14:25
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[Virginia] LETTER: Smokers get no sympathy here for higher tax

It’s not just about smokers and the extra tax they have to pay. They harm others with their actions, just as we are all in danger if someone chooses to drink and drive. People in the Roanoke Valley are trying to feed their children, heat their homes and
Roanoke (VA) Times & World News
added Jun 7, 2013 10:23
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[Bangladesh] Rising tobacco use sparks concerns

The tobacco control law of 2005 provides for bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship, smoking in public places and public transports and requirements for warning on cigarette packets. However, direct tobacco advertising had been banned only for sm
Dhaka Tribune (bd)
added Jun 2, 2013 09:46
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[Bangladesh] Anti-tobacco campaigners link smoking to poverty

Anti-tobacco platform Adhunik and World Health Organization (WHO) jointly organised a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club, where speakers demanded strong government monitoring of cigarette-makers who, they say, lure farmers to cultivate tobacco on cropla
Dhaka Tribune (bd)
added Jun 2, 2013 09:44
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[Africa, South Africa] Ban on tobacco displays to protect children: WHO

Social media, the movies and in-store displays continue to push South African children into taking up a deadly addiction. Friday, 31 May, is World No Tobacco Day and the aim is to highlight the enormous harm caused by tobacco use and to promote effectiv
Health-E (za)
added May 30, 2013 07:10
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Joblessness Shortens Lifespan of Least Educated White Women, Research Says

But they mattered little. As it turned out, smoking was important, as had long been established, but researchers were surprised that joblessness had a dramatic effect, even after controlling for factors that employment would have generated, like income
New York Times
added May 30, 2013 07:05
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[Massachusetts] SUN/REESE: Tobacco tax - Who smokes and who pays?

the poor and the less educated smoke at a higher rate than those with higher incomes and more schooling. As a result, Massachusetts' ever-increasing tobacco tax has become increasingly regressive.
Milford (MA) Daily News
added May 28, 2013 06:47
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SWEDA: 2013 Altria Group, Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting: Politely conducting business as usual

In sharp contrast to the manner in which management at Reynolds American, Inc. conducted its annual meeting of shareholders a week earlier, Altria Group, Inc.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin J. Barrington treated everyone at the May 16th m
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
added May 24, 2013 13:02
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