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Brad Rodu
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Secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke is a combination of smoke from a burning cigarette and exhaled smoke from a smoker. This substance is an involuntarily inhaled mix of compounds that causes or contributes to a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory infections, adverse reproductive effects, and asthma. This paper presents findings from Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS) conducted in 132 countries between 1999 and 2005. GYTS data indicate that a large proportion of students in every World Health Organization Region are exposed to secondhand smoke at home (43.9%) and in public places (55.8%), and many have parents (46.5%) or best friends who smoke (17.9%). GYTS data have shown widespread and strong support among students for bans on smoking in public areas all over the world (76.1%). Countries should engage this positive public health attitude among youth to promote and enforce policies for smoke-free public places an...
Journal of Internal Medicine
Impact of smokeless tobacco use on smoking in northern Sweden
2002 •
Birgitta Stegmayr
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Tobacco Control and Children: An International Perspective
2010 •
Alexander Prokhorov
Tobacco use currently claims >5 million deaths per year worldwide and this number is projected to increase dramatically by 2030. The burden of death and disease is shifting to low- and middle-income countries. Tobacco control initiatives face numerous challenges including not being a high priority in many countries, government dependence upon immediate revenue from tobacco sales and production, and opposition of the tobacco industry. Tobacco leads to environmental harms, exploitation of workers in tobacco farming, and increased poverty. Children are especially vulnerable. Not only do they initiate tobacco use themselves, but also they are victimized by exposure to highly toxic secondhand smoke. Awareness of tobacco adverse health effects is often superficial even among health professionals. The tobacco industry continues to aggressively promote its products and recognizes that children are its future. The tools and knowledge exist, however, to dramatically reduce the global burde...
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
Fourteen years of ‘Smokefree Class’, a school-based smoking prevention programme in Catalonia that adapts to new forms of consumption
2018 •
Araceli Valverde
How low can we go Tobacco Control in Sweden
2016 •
Tove Sohlberg
What can be accomplished by reducing smoking prevalence: the Swedish example
Lars Ramström
What can be accomplished by reducing smoking prevalence: the swedish example Background A country’s health burden attributable to tobacco is related to the size and development of the prevalence of smoking. The experience from Sweden can serve as a concrete example of what can be accomplished by reducing the prevalence of smoking. Objectives To review the scope and determinants of the Swedish experience. Methods Analyses of Swedish and International reports and studies. Results In the period from 1963 to 2012 the prevalence of daily smoking has decreased from 49% to 9% in men and from 23% to 12% in women. This results from a combination of decreasing initiation of smoking and increasing cessation of smoking. According to 2012 Eurobarometer data Sweden’s overall quit ratio is highest in Europé, more than double as high as in South-East Europen countries and 63% higher than the EU average. Mortality in tobacco-related diseases has been decreasing, particularly in men. According to the...
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Knowledge about tobacco and subsequent use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco among Swedish adolescents
2005 •
Maria Galanti, Anders Ahlbom
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Evidence from qualitative studies of youth about the impacts of tobacco control policy on young people in Europe: a systematic review
2018 •
Amanda Amos
A range of tobacco control policies endeavour to prevent smoking uptake in young people, yet relatively little is known about how such interventions impact young people's engagement with smoking. We reviewed existing qualitative evidence on young people and smoking in Europe in order to assess whether, in what ways and why young people comply with, adapt to, resist or circumvent tobacco control policies in their respective countries. We undertook a systematic review of academic literature presenting qualitative research from Europe on smoking and young people (11-18 years), published from 2000 - 2015. Bibliographic searches (PubMed, PsycInfo, SSCI) produced 1357 records, from which 43 relevant papers were assessed for quality and 39 included in the review. Most studies were from the UK (27), with a small number (one or two each) from other European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland and Spain). Only 16 articles (11 from UK) provide...
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
The Decline of Smoking in Northern Sweden
2005 •
Birgitta Stegmayr
