Background: Smoking is an important risk factor for various diseases, especially cancer. Aims: To estimate the prevalence of cigarette and waterpipe smoking and its association with cancer incidence in Middle Eastern countries.
KUALA LUMPUR: The local vape retailers are facing an uncertain future as the government continues to delay in regulating the industry, with a growing concern that these businesses could shutter by year-end.
PETALING JAYA: A think tank estimates that over RM1.1 billion in government spending can be saved annually if harm reduction policies in public health and transportation are adopted.
Health experts believe that providing smokers less harmful alternatives will be more effective in reducing smoking than the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations prohibiting them while cigarettes remain available.
MANILA, Philippines, Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quit For Good, a non-profit organization promoting harm reduction in the Philippines, said strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations to prohibit them while cigarettes remain widely available.
Introduction: The use of e-cigarettes has steadily increased, and vocational students are one primary target of e-cigarette marketing. This cross-sectional survey research aimed to explore e-cigarette use and examine the factors associated with it.
Strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations to prohibit them while cigarettes remain widely available, public health experts said in a global forum.
The present study aimed to evaluate the functional interaction between the dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems of the mediodorsal thalamus (MD), the ventral hippocampus (VH), and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in nicotine-induced anxiogenic-like behaviors. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level changes were measured in the targeted brain areas following the drug treatments.
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