OBJECTIVES The current study team sought to understand smokeless tobacco (SLT) usage trends among youth, using nationally representative data collected as part of the Canadian Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) between 2004 and 2008. METHODS Descriptive analyses of SLT ever use among respondents in grades 6 to 9 were examined according to year of data collection (2008, n = 31,249; 2006, n = 34,050; a...

BACKGROUND Tobacco use among adolescence is one of the important preventable causes of death as well as a leading public health problem all over the world. The present study was conducted with the objective of studying the effect of peer-led interventions on tobacco use among adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty schools were randomly selected and ten schools each were identified as clust...

It should not be assumed that smokeless tobacco manufacturers share our public health goals

INTRODUCTION India has experienced marked sociocultural change, economic growth and industry promotion of tobacco products over the past decade. Little is known about the influence of these factors on socioeconomic patterning of tobacco use. This study examines trends in tobacco use by socioeconomic status (SES) in India between 2000 and 2012. METHODS We analyzed data in 2014 from nationally-...

My personal journey as a tobacco researcher started at the University of Northern Colorado where I was an assistant professor of psychology and helped a student with his master's thesis study on "rapid smoking." This therapy is a format of aversion counterconditioning, the purpose being to turn the previously pleasant experience of smoking into an aversive event. Subjects were asked to puff on ...

BACKGROUND Article 20 of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control calls for a cross-country surveillance of tobacco use through population-based surveys. We aimed to provide country-level prevalence estimates for current smoking and current smokeless tobacco use and to assess social determinants of smoking. METHODS Data from Demographic and Health Surveys done bet...

BACKGROUND Pouch moist snuff, as a form of oral smokeless tobacco products, is becoming increasingly popular in North America, Scandinavia (where it is known as Snus), South Asia and parts of Africa. User usually places a pouch between the upper jaw and cheek to obtain euphoria from tobacco, leading to partial intake of tobacco constituents. To evaluate user exposure to tobacco, an approach wit...

Tobacco use is the single leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Approximately 80% of tobacco use occurs for the first time among youth aged <18 years, and the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents increased during the early 1990s. To determine prevalence rates of cigarette, smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco or snuff), and cigar use for U.S. high school students, ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence of tobacco use in Uzbekistan, a country targeted intensively by the international tobacco industry. METHODS A national household survey elicited information about cigarette smoking and nasway use (a form of smokeless tobacco). RESULTS Prevalence of past-month smoking and nasway use among men (N=1795) was 19.6% and 22.3%, respectively, and 1.6%...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate tobacco control in Massachusetts through examining trends in youth tobacco use from 1996 to 1999. DESIGN Data are from the 1996 and 1999 Massachusetts Prevalence Study survey of public school students in the state. PARTICIPANTS Participants consisted of 6800 (1996) and 6980 (1999) students in Massachusetts public school grades 6-12 (approximate ages 11-18 years). MAI...