dentistryiq.com – 04 de Noviembre de 2014 – EEUU

Interrupting the disease of tobacco addiction

Dr. Charl Els, pictured left, is Associate (adjunct) Professor, Dossetor Health Ethics Centre Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. The goals of the course were to provide participants with an increased knowledge of the disease of tobacco addiction, greater confidence in applying the clinical practice guidelines, and enhanced skills in approaching tobacco addicted patients.

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camelcitydispatch.com – 04 de Noviembre de 2014 – EEUU

Youth Tobacco Survey Shows Less Smoking, More E-cigarette Use Among NC Teens

The 2013 N.C. Youth Tobacco Survey, released last month, delivers both good and bad news to those working to prevent tobacco use among North Carolina students. Results show the lowest teen cigarette smoking rates ever recorded, along with a significant increase in teen use of certain non-cigarette tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and hookahs (water pipes).

kid stop smokingCigarette smoking among North Carolina middle school students dropped 40 percent from 2011 to 2013, falling from 4.2 percent to 2.5 percent. Among high school students, the drop was 13 percent, from 15.5 percent to 13.5 percent.

However, current use of electronic cigarettes among North Carolina high school students jumped by 352 percent from 1.7 percent in 2011 to 7.7 percent in 2013. Ten percent of high school students said they are considering using electronic cigarettes in the next year and 10.6 percent of high school students are considering hookah use in the next year.

“We celebrate the decline in cigarette smoking; however this trend toward other tobacco use and dual use of tobacco products is a real cause for concern,” said Dr. Ruth Petersen, chief of the Chronic Disease and Injury Section in the N.C Division of Public Health. “Nicotine in these tobacco products is highly addictive, and there is evidence that using nicotine during adolescence may harm brain development.

carolinapublicpress.org – 22 de septiembre de 2014 – EEUU

Youth tobacco survey shows less smoking, more e-cig use among NC teens

The 2013 N.C. Youth Tobacco Survey, released Wednesday, delivers both good and bad news to those working to prevent tobacco use among North Carolina students. Results show the lowest teen cigarette smoking rates ever recorded, along with a significant increase in teen use of certain non-cigarette tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and hookahs (water pipes).

Cigarette smoking among North Carolina middle school students dropped 40 percent from 2011 to 2013, falling from 4.2 percent to 2.5 percent. Among high school students, the drop was 13 percent, from 15.5 percent to 13.5 percent.

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cbc.ca – 10 de septiembre de 2014 – Canadá

Flavoured tobacco popular with Canadian teens: survey

Half of the teenagers who smoked in the past month used a flavored tobacco product, according to a survey on youth smoking habits in Canada.

The survey, done by the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo, on behalf of Health Canada, discovered that 50 per cent of high school students who had used tobacco within the past 30 days used flavored products.

That equates to half of the high school students (15 and over) who used tobacco products in the month before the survey was taken, or 137,000 students, the report noted.

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sunnewsnetwork.ca – 10 de septiembre de 2014 – Canadá

'Troubling' number of high school students use flavored tobacco: Canadian Cancer Society

The number of high school students who have used flavored tobacco products is "troubling" and new legislation banning the sale of it is needed immediately, the Canadian Cancer Society says.

In the 2012/13 Youth Smoking Survey, 50% of high school students who had used tobacco products in the 30 days before being polled said they had used flavored tobacco products, which can include cigarillos, water pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff and menthol cigarettes.

Boys were slightly more likely than girls to use flavored tobacco products, 53% compared to 46%. As well, 29% of those using flavored products said they smoked menthol cigarettes.

The survey of 47,203 students in every province except Manitoba and the territories was conducted between Nov. 2012 and June 2013 by researchers at the University of Waterloo and released Wednesday by the society. It also showed 12% of students had smoked cigarettes in the 30 days before the poll and 18% had used tobacco products in general.

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indiatimes.com – 08 de Septiembre de 2014 – India

‘Voice of Tobacco Victims’ asks Punjab govt to make cigarettes costlier

CHANDIGARH: With Punjab cabinet deciding to take a relook at the value added tax (VAT) structure in Punjab last week, 'Voice of Tobacco Victims', which is an anti-tobacco campaign fighting against the menace of tobacco, has asked the state government to make cigarettes costlier.

"According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) India, about 24 lakh people in Punjab use tobacco and about 14 lakh use smokeless tobacco. Of these tobacco users, over 9 lakh will die untimely death due to tobacco and a major part of those dying from cancer will be tobacco users," said Punjab patron Dr Prahlad Duggal, in a memorandum to the government on Monday.

It is true that the state government earns lot of revenue from the sale of tobacco products. But the social and financial cost of so many deaths caused by tobacco is far greater than this revenue collected. It is also much more than the employment generated from tobacco industry.

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journaltimes.com – 3 de septiembre de 2014 – EEUU

Vitamin C Supplementation for Pregnant Smoking Women and Pulmonary Function in Their Newborn Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Half of smoking women who become pregnant continue to smoke during pregnancy, with adverse effects on fetal lung development because of in utero exposure to tobacco products. Given the challenges of reducing smoking during pregnancy, this study sought to determine whether administration of vitamin C protects human lung development in utero. In this randomized trial, pregnant women in the active group received 500 mg daily of supplemental vitamin C. The primary outcome of interest was newborn infant pulmonary function tests of (PFTs), with secondary outcomes including incidence of wheezing during the first 12 months of life as well as PFT results at 1 year.

The women were enrolled at 3 different clinical sites in North America during 2007-2011. All were current smokers, defined as smoking at least 1 cigarette in 24 hours. The women were randomly assigned at ≤ 22 weeks of pregnancy to an intervention group (n = 89) or placebo (n = 90). All study mothers had declined smoking cessation efforts. A group of pregnant nonsmoking women were studied as a comparison group. Both smoking groups received brief counseling about cessation of smoking at each prenatal visit, and prenatal visits occurred at standard intervals. Newborn PFTs were obtained in the first 72 hours of life, when the infants were asleep. Follow-up PFTs at 1 year were obtained in 67% of the infants. Wheezing in the first 12 months of life was assessed by research personnel who administered a questionnaire to the family.

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arabnews.com – 1 de septiembre de 2014 – Arabia saudita

KSA acts to reduce harmful effects of tobacco products

Commerce Minister Tawfik Al-Rabiah refuted rumors via Twitter that there would be a hike in tobacco prices in the Kingdom.

The Kingdom will, however, increase the specifications of tobacco products to minimize its harmful effects on smokers, the minister said on Saturday.

The Kingdom joined the anti-tobacco agreement in May 2005.

Saudi Arabia ranks fourth in the world for tobacco imports and consumption. More than 15 billion cigarettes, worth $168 million, are smoked by Saudis each year, according to figures released by the Gulf Cooperation Council’s Health Ministers Council.

The minister stressed that decisions on price increases are taken by the GCC Finance Ministers Council.

“The Kingdom has not given any signal for the increase in the price of tobacco products,” the minister added.

The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will launch a Kingdom-wide survey on adult smokers by September, according to Ali Alwadey, director-general of the ministry’s tobacco control program.

The director-general said that the study will be conducted among 8,000 families living in different parts of the Kingdom.

“The survey will help authorities plan out future programs on combating smoking and will cover all age groups and people from all walks of life,” he said. He also said the ministry has gotten approval to conduct the survey.

Alwadey said that the study will be carried out over a period of eight months and that the report will be available for decision-makers and planners soon after it is presented to the Ministry of Health.

The Health Ministry has launched a mobile service to assist smokers in kicking the habit.

“We have deployed 10 mobile units that will visit all parts of the Kingdom in the next 12 months to assist smokers to unlearn their habit,” he noted.

He said the mobile service would visit malls, parks and other public places most frequented by smokers to tell them about the hazards of the habit and how to give it up.

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medscape.com – 18 de Agosto de 2014 – EEUU

Most Providers Skip Tobacco Discussions With Teenagers

Less than a third of adolescents in a 2011 survey reported that their healthcare providers asked them about tobacco use or advised them not to use tobacco, according to an article published online August 18 in Pediatrics.

Gillian L. Schauer, MPH, from Carter Consulting, a contractor to the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues analyzed responses to the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS).

The NYTS is a nationally representative survey of adolescents in grades 6 to 12 in public and private schools in the United States. A total of 18,866 students (72.7% response rate) completed the 2011 survey. The researchers analyzed responses from 18,094 students who answered specific questions about smoking and health professional screening and advice.

Overall, the prevalence of tobacco use in 2011 among adolescents was 16.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 14.7% - 18.5%), and

10.8% of adolescents were current cigarette smokers,

3.6% were established smokers,

7.2% were nonestablished smokers,

17.3% were former smokers, and

71.9% were never smokers.

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ibtimes.co.in – 23 de Julio 2014 – India

Tobacco Consumption High among Indian Females: Government

More than 20 percent of India's female population consumes tobacco, the Union government stated on Tuesday.

As per the findings of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), conducted by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2010), 20.3 percent of females - 15 years and above - consume tobacco in some form or the other.

The use of smokeless forms of tobacco is more prevalent (18.4 percent) among females than smoking forms (2.9 percent), Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan pointed out in Rajya Sabha.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) says that over half of all oral cancers in Asia are caused by tobacco.

Based on the data provided by the National Cancer Registry Programme, the estimated number of new cancer cases for 2035 is about 1.9 million, Harsh Vardhan said.

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fredericknewspost.com– 17 de Julio 2014 – EEUU - Maryland

Health survey to address tobacco effects, chronic conditions

New ways to prevent tobacco use and tobacco-related illnesses are the focus of a new statewide survey sponsored by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The department entered into a $1.9 million contract with Abt SRBI to conduct the next two rounds of surveys statewide, one this year and one in 2016, according to Sandy Cogan, Abt spokeswoman. The Maryland Healthier Communities Survey is part of a new initiative by the state and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve the lives of Maryland residents.

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news-medical.net – 2 de abril de 2014 2014 – EEUU

Exposure to tobacco websites linked with increased chances of smoking initiation

Teens and young adults who are exposed to marketing materials for tobacco products, such as coupons and websites, were far more likely to begin smoking or to be current smokers than those not exposed, finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

"For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing," said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140402/Exposure-to-tobacco-websites-linked-with-increased-chances-of-smoking-initiation.aspx

binghamtonhomepage.com – 31 de marzo de 2014 – UK

Survey Reveals Tobacco Restriction Growing Support

New local survey results show a growing acceptance for restricting smoking in public places.

The Broome Tioga Tobacco Control Partners commissioned the study of adult opinions in both counties. The results show a very slight increase in the number of people who would support banning smoking near building entrances and public parks and pools.

For example, the number of Broome County residents supporting a smoking ban in parks rose from 67 percent in 2006 to 74 percent last year.

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http://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/story/d/story/survey-reveals-tobacco-restriction-growing-support/29133/3FMB0qdnvkiFnxhc9_ysbQ

wbng.com – 27 de marzo de 2014 – EEUU

Tobacco survey shows people try to avoid smoke

Vestal, NY (WBNG Binghamton) People in Broome and Tioga counties said they support more efforts to control tobacco use and create more tobacco-free spaces in a survey led by Tobacco Free Broome and Tioga.

More than 800 people living in the two counties took part in a Community Tobacco survey in 2013 and the results are finally in.

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calaverasenterprise.com – 14 de marzo de 2014 - EEUU

Survey shows tobacco industry still marketing to youth

New data released March 5 shows that Calaveras County has more stores that sell candy-, mint- and liquor-flavored tobacco products compared to similar counties and cities in the state.

“The tobacco industry continues to find new ways and new products to lure in our youth to try tobacco products,” said Dr. Dean Kelaita, county health officer.

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npr.org – 6 de marzo de 2014 - EEUU

Teens Who Try E-Cigarettes Are More Likely To Try Tobacco, Too

While electronic cigarettes may be marketed as alternatives that will keep teenagers away from tobacco, a study suggests that may not be the case.

Trying e-cigarettes increased the odds that a teenager would also try tobacco cigarettes and become regular smokers, the study found. Those who said they had ever used an e-cigarette were six times more likely to try tobacco than ones who had never tried the e-cig.

Researchers from the Center for Tobacco Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed data from the 2011 and 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey, a federal questionnaire administered to students in grades 6 through 12 in middle and high schools nationwide. It asked teenagers whether they smoked electronic or tobacco cigarettes or both.

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montereyherald.com – 6 de marzo de 2014 - EEUU

Health survey leads to more criticism of tobacco advertising

A survey of 7,000 tobacco retailers in California found that 37 percent of such stores were within walking distances of schools in Santa Cruz County, greater than the state average of 27 percent.

In Salinas, about 50 percent of stores admitted to selling tobacco to minors, said Dale Hillard, chairman of the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Monterey.

These were some of the startling facts to come out of the survey conducted by public health officials and community volunteers. The survey was presented as part of a series of news conferences across the state, including one Wednesday at the Monterey County Health Department.

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http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_25284088/health-survey-leads-more-criticism-tobacco-advertising

deccanchronicle.com - 27 de Febrero 2014 - India

High tobacco use among Kerala children, says national study

Thiruvananthapuram: Seventy-four percent children in Kerala use tobacco, according to a recent multi-site survey conducted by the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

A total of 119 children in the state, between the age group of 5-18, were covered as part of the study, conducted to examine the pattern, profile and correlates of substance use, a release said here today.

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