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Tobacco retail availability and risk of relapse among smokers who make a quit attempt: a population-based cohort study
Introduction The availability of tobacco is thought to influence smoking behaviour, but there are few longitudinal studies examining if the location and number of tobacco outlets has a prospective ...
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Retailer licensing and tobacco display compliance: are some retailers more likely to flout regulations?
Correspondence to Rae Fry, Cancer Programs Division, Cancer Council NSW, P.O. Box 572, Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW 1340, Australia; rae.fry{at}gmail.com Objectives To assess retailer compliance with a ...
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22 years on: the impact and relevance of the UK No Smoking Day
Objectives: To evaluate the impact and relevance of the national awareness day “No Smoking Day” 22 years after it was launched. Design: Triangulation of data from a variety of sources. Retrospective ...
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Current smoking and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in the WHO MONICA Project populations
4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK Correspondence to: Markku Mähönen MD Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, KTL-National Public ...
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JUUL ‘new technology’ pods exhibit greater electrical power and nicotine output than previous devices
Correspondence to Professor Alan Shihadeh, Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon; as20{at}aub.edu.lb In 2019, JUUL Labs began marketing in the European Union ...
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High exposure to nicotine among adolescents who use Juul and other vape pod systems (‘pods’)
Correspondence to Dr Maciej Lukasz Goniewicz, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; ...
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Impact of cigarette price differences across the entire European Union on cross-border purchase of tobacco products among adult cigarette smokers
Correspondence to Dr Israel T Agaku, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...
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Cigarette use among male and female grade 8–10 students of different ethnicity in South African schools
Objectives: To provide data on the prevalence of cigarette use by male and female South African students of different ethnic backgrounds in grades 8–10 (ages ⩽ 11 to ⩾ 17 years), their age of ...
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Should smoking be banned in prisons?
Tobacco smoking is an integral part of prison life and an established part of the prison culture. Tobacco serves a range of functions in prison: as a surrogate currency, a means of social control, as ...
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Do u smoke after txt? Results of a randomised trial of smoking cessation using mobile phone text messaging
1 Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Social & Community Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland 3 ...
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Tobacco control and Healthy China 2030
Background The Healthy China 2030 strategy sets ambitious targets for China’s policy-makers, including a decrease in the smoking rate from 27.7% in 2015 to 20% by 2030. China has made progress on ...
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The impact of structural packaging design on young adult smokers' perceptions of tobacco products
Objectives To examine the extent that novel cigarette pack shapes and openings have on smokers' perceptions of those packs and the cigarettes contained within. Method Using a web-based survey, 160 ...