Background Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable death, contributing to the death of nearly 6 million people each year. Medical students, who are future doctors, have an important role to play in smoking cessation and prevention. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of tobacco use among medical students of Democritus University of Thrace Medic...

Michele Bloch, MD, PHD, Lynne Haverkos, MD, MPH, and Jared B. Jobe, PHD Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Child Development and Behavior Branch, Center for Research for Mothers and Children, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Clinical Applications and Prevention Branch, Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and...

Objective: Healthcare professionals and addiction programs play important roles in tobacco use prevention and cessation activities. In this study, we analyzed the prevalence of tobacco use and the impact of smoking cessation advice through programs/professionals among a nationally representative sample of youth in India. Methods: The data were obtained from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS...

Abstract We investigated whether eating and body image disturbances in mid-adolescence were associated with substance use young adulthood. Participants ( n = 1566) completed the drive for thinness, bulimic behavior, dissatisfaction subscales from Eating Disorder Inventory during adolescence (15–16 years), reported frequencies of (tobacco, cannabis, binge drinking, other illicit substances) acro...

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) was signed into law on June 22, 2009, and provided the Food and Drug Adinistration (FDA) broad regulatory authority with repect to the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of obacco products. The three public health goals of the enter for Tobacco Products (CTP), FDA, are to prevent outh initiation of tobacco use, decrease harm and/...

OBJECTIVES The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center (RTI-UNC EPC) systematically reviewed the evidence on (a) the effectiveness of community- and population-based interventions to prevent tobacco use and to increase consumer demand for and implementation of effective cessation interventions; (b) the impacts of smokeless tobacco marketing o...

Introduction Approximately 80% of smokers began using tobacco products before 18 years of age (1). Between 1990 and 2000, the population growth rate (shown in parentheses) within each of the following racial/ethnic minority populations increased more rapidly than that for whites (5%): Asian Americans (48%); Hispanics (47%); blacks (15%); American Indians/Alaska Natives (15%); and Native Hawaiia...

Although the population-level success of tobacco denormalization is widely accepted, it remains unclear whether these strategies alleviate health inequities for sexual and gender minorities. The high risk of smoking among sexual and gender minorities together with research that documents a relationship between stigma-related processes and smoking prevalence for these groups raises questions abo...

This review focuses on the extent to which comprehensive, statewide, tobacco control programs in the United States have induced change in teenage smoking or made progress towards this goal and under what circumstances such programs are likely to be most effective. The sources for this review include published journal articles, reports and documents, rather than any primary data analysis. We rev...

"British American Tobacco strongly believes children should not smoke, and smoking should only be for adults who understand the risks associated with it. Our Group companies support and run programmes worldwide tackling underage smoking, and we are committed to pooling our resources and experience globally with others in the tobacco industry--and with governments and NGOs--to help prevent youth...