Lung health, tobacco, and related products: gaps, challenges, new threats, and suggested research

S St Claire, H Gouda, K Schotte… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health challenges the world has ever
faced, killing more 17 than 8 million people around the world every year. In 2017, tobacco …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of key demand-reduction measures of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and change in smoking prevalence in 126 …

S Gravely, GA Giovino, L Craig, A Commar… - The Lancet Public …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
has mobilised efforts among 180 parties to combat the global tobacco epidemic. This study …

Successes and new emerging challenges in tobacco control: addressing the vector

JM Mackay, DW Bettcher, R Minhas… - Tobacco …, 2012 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Other major achievements include strengthening of the international nongovernmental
movement against tobacco, for example, continuing and expanded world conferences on …

Changes in tobacco depictions after implementation of tobacco-free film and TV rules in Bollywood films in India: a trend analysis

GP Nazar, M Arora, N Sharma… - Tobacco …, 2023 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background India's tobacco-free film and TV rules were implemented from 2012. To assess
the effect of the rules, we studied tobacco depictions in top-grossing Bollywood films …

Tobacco imagery in on-demand streaming content popular among adolescents and young adults in India: implications for global tobacco control

M Arora, GP Nazar, A Chugh, T Rawal… - Tobacco …, 2021 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background India implemented tobacco-free film and TV rules (Rules) to protect adolescents
and young adults from tobacco exposure. Objective To assess tobacco imagery in online …

[PDF][PDF] The necessity of continuing to ban tobacco use in public places post-COVID-19

F El-Awa, CP Fraser, K Adib, A Hammerich… - Eastern Mediterranean …, 2020 - apps.who.int
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 and has since been
declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Millions of cases have been …

[PDF][PDF] Tobacco and coronary heart disease: WHO tobacco knowledge summaries

F Puig-Cotado, E Tursan d'Espaignet, S St Claire… - 2020 - apps.who.int
Coronary heart disease (CHD) 1 is a disease in which fatty deposits made up of cholesterol
and other cellular materials (collectively called plaque) accumulate inside the coronary …

Subthreshold affective disorders: a useful concept in psychiatric epidemiology?

K Schotte, B Cooper - Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 1999 - cambridge.org
Objective-In recent years an extensive literature has grown up around the concepts of
subthreshold, subsyndromal, minor and brief recurrent affective disorder and their …

[HTML][HTML] The World Health Organization's world no tobacco day 2020 campaign exposes tobacco and related industry tactics to manipulate children and young people …

S St Claire, R Fayokun, A Commar… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2020 - jahonline.org
There are 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide. That number might be even larger if tobacco
did not kill half of its users [1]. Every 4 seconds, tobacco is responsible for another premature …

The WHO framework convention on tobacco control

M Pötschke-Langer, K Schotte, T Szilagyi - The Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 - karger.com
Tobacco is among the major preventable causes of death in the world today. The World
Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco kills about 6 million people yearly. The …