Brazil and tobacco use: a hard nut to crack

Bull World Health Organ. 2009 Nov;87(11):812-3. doi: 10.2471/blt.09.031109.

Abstract

Brazil is pushing to enforce smoking bans and backing nicotine replacement therapies in an attempt to keep chipping away at tobacco-use statistics. Raising the price of cigarettes would also help. Claudia Jurberg reports.

Publication types

  • News

MeSH terms

  • Brazil / epidemiology
  • Counseling
  • Humans
  • Nicotine / therapeutic use
  • Nicotinic Agonists / therapeutic use
  • Prevalence
  • Public Health Administration / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Smoking / economics
  • Smoking / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Smoking Cessation / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Smoking Cessation / methods*
  • Smoking Prevention*
  • Tobacco Smoke Pollution / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Tobacco Use Disorder / therapy*

Substances

  • Nicotinic Agonists
  • Tobacco Smoke Pollution
  • Nicotine