This paper summarizes the content of Tobacco or Health: Status in the Americas, 2992 (Z), a status report published by the Pan American Health Organization containing information available as of late 1990 on tobacco use, tobacco related disease, and tobacco-use prevention and control efforts in the Region of the Americas. The PAHO report focuses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada and c...

8. Cunningham S, Schuler-Adair E, Celestin M, Quintal L, Lovell BJ, Thomas SM. A content analysis of tobacco prevention and cessation print materials. Paper presented at: meeting of the American Association for Cancer Education and the European Association for Cancer Education; November 2–5, 2000; Washington, DC. Tobacco Industry Marketing at Point of Purchase After the 1998 MSA Billboard Adver...

Raising the minimum age of legal access to tobacco products may reduce smoking initiation and save lives. In a national telephone survey (2014-2015), US adolescents aged 13 to 17 years (N = 1,125; response rate, 66%) were asked about raising the age of legal access to tobacco products and randomized to hear one of 3 ages (19, 20, or 21 y). Most adolescents, across all US regions, favored raisin...

OBJECTIVE Pediatricians have a unique and important role to play in the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent tobacco use, the protection of patients from the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke, and the encouragement of smoking cessation among parents. However, because recent research indicates that physician training in tobacco dependence is woefully weak and lacks a...

OBJECTIVES To provide a systematic review of smoking prevention and cessation interventions that have been conducted with cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES Published research studies and government reports. CONCLUSION Although few interventions have been developed to improve smoking prevention and cessation rates in cancer survivors, existing studies suggest that it is possible to decrease tob...

BACKGROUND Normative misperceptions have been widely documented for alcohol use among U.S. college students. There is less research on other substances or European cultural contexts. This study explores which factors are associated with alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use misperceptions among French college students, focusing on substance use. METHODS 12 classes of second-year college students ...

OBJECTIVE To provide a comprehensive review of interventions and policies aimed at reducing youth cigarette smoking in the United States, including strategies that have undergone evaluation and emerging innovations that have not yet been assessed for efficacy. DATA SOURCES Medline literature searches, books, reports, electronic list servers, and interviews with tobacco control advocates. DA...

The global survey, “Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases”, shows that some countries are making remarkable progress. A number of countries have put in place measures to protect people from exposure to tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. Some have created new financing opportunities to build strong public ...

The global survey, “Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases”, shows that some countries are making remarkable progress. A number of countries have put in place measures to protect people from exposure to tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity. Some have created new financing opportunities to build strong public ...