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Retailer licensing and tobacco display compliance: are some retailers more likely to flout regulations?
Correspondence to Rae Fry, Cancer Programs Division, Cancer Council NSW, P.O. Box 572, Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW 1340, Australia; rae.fry{at}gmail.com Objectives To assess retailer compliance with a ...
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Tobacco retail availability and risk of relapse among smokers who make a quit attempt: a population-based cohort study
Introduction The availability of tobacco is thought to influence smoking behaviour, but there are few longitudinal studies examining if the location and number of tobacco outlets has a prospective ...
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22 years on: the impact and relevance of the UK No Smoking Day
Objectives: To evaluate the impact and relevance of the national awareness day “No Smoking Day” 22 years after it was launched. Design: Triangulation of data from a variety of sources. Retrospective ...
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Impact of cigarette price differences across the entire European Union on cross-border purchase of tobacco products among adult cigarette smokers
Correspondence to Dr Israel T Agaku, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...
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Predictors of smoking cessation among elderly smokers treated for nicotine dependence.
Division of Community Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. OBJECTIVE: To examine outcomes and predictors of smoking cessation among elderly patients treated for nicotine ...
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Current smoking and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction in the WHO MONICA Project populations
4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK Correspondence to: Markku Mähönen MD Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, KTL-National Public ...
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Thirdhand smoke and exposure in California hotels: non-smoking rooms fail to protect non-smoking hotel guests from tobacco smoke exposure
1 Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA 2 Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA 3 San Diego Joint Doctoral ...
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High exposure to nicotine among adolescents who use Juul and other vape pod systems (‘pods’)
Correspondence to Dr Maciej Lukasz Goniewicz, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; ...
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The impact of structural packaging design on young adult smokers' perceptions of tobacco products
Objectives To examine the extent that novel cigarette pack shapes and openings have on smokers' perceptions of those packs and the cigarettes contained within. Method Using a web-based survey, 160 ...
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Smoking cessation in China: findings from the 1996 national prevalence survey
Professor Samet, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USAjsamet{at}jhsph.edu OBJECTIVES To ...
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Should smoking be banned in prisons?
Tobacco smoking is an integral part of prison life and an established part of the prison culture. Tobacco serves a range of functions in prison: as a surrogate currency, a means of social control, as ...