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Banning tobacco advertisements: is there a question?
Often the answer to a serious problem does not lie in the results of even more complicated research or in the acquisition of ever larger databases. Rather, it involves the ability to accept the truth, assume a responsible and moral attitude towards it and act accordingly. This may very well appear self-evident, but in reality, as in the case of the tobacco advertising and promotion ban, it beco...
متن کاملBanning retail tobacco sales: time to start the discussion.
Smoking is being increasingly banned where there is power and the will to enact bans—cars transporting children, hospital grounds, public buildings, public transport, parks and private apartment blocks [1–4]. Internationally, smokers are being excluded from opportunities, such as employment with the World Health Organization and free health insurance in Jakarta [5,6]. Here in Australia we only ...
متن کاملThe challenges facing Third World countries in banning tobacco.
Tobacco is one of the most common hazardous drugs and is widely available in almost all countries. The harmful effects of tobacco are only too common and are well known to all public health workers: tobacco smoking is responsible for lung cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, smoker’s cough, ischaemic heart disease, vascular problems, low-birthweight babies, and many other problems. What are pe...
متن کامل04 Tobacco cessation.pmd
1Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt (Correspondence to R.M. Youssef: [email protected]). Received: 10/04/03; accepted: 20/12/04 ABSTRACT A survey of 2120 adults in Alexandria, Egypt, studied the determinants and patterns of tobacco cessation among ever smokers. Ever smokers were 30.7% of respondents; only 3.5% had given up smok...
متن کاملReducing Disparities in Tobacco Retailer Density by Banning Tobacco Product Sales Near Schools.
INTRODUCTION This study examined whether a policy of banning tobacco product retailers from operating within 1000 feet of schools could reduce existing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in tobacco retailer density. METHODS We geocoded all tobacco retailers in Missouri (n = 4730) and New York (n = 17 672) and linked them with Census tract characteristics. We then tested the potential...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1097/01.jto.0000282918.04853.62