Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of a media literacy-based smoking prevention program based on Ajzen's theory of planned behavior in female adolescents.
CONSUMER groups have urged the World Health Organization to include smokers, vapers and the tobacco industry in its quest to end the global smoking problem. "The WHO tends to just attack the industry, which is a black-and-white thing for them," said Martin Cullip, an international fellow at The Taxpayers Protection Alliance's (TPA) Consumer Center. "But they don't look at the complexities behind what they're doing. And in attacking industry, they're forgetting the people underneath who are affected."
THE Philippine National Police (PNP) expressed on Monday, March 18, 2024, concern over the volume of minors being apprehended in relation to the use of either traditional or electronic cigarettes (vapes).
The Ministry of Finance has maintained its proposal to impose a 50% Most-Favored Nation (MFN) tariff on electronic atomizer, the device used to heat up liquid solution used for vaping.
Background: Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased tremendously at a global level among all age groups, particularly young people. Previous studies have examined the impact of waterpipe tobacco pictorial health warnings on adults but scarce studies were done on adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess the association of textual versus pictorial warnings on tumbac boxes and the motivation to quit waterpipe smoking among adolescents located in two Eastern Mediterranean countries Lebanon and Iraq.
Health Minister Dr Dzul is seeking Cabinet approval for proposed regulations under the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024. The Act, which has been gazetted, will then be enforced simultaneously with the enforcement of the regulations.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (KKM) found an increasing trend in vaping or the use of electronic cigarettes, including among women, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni said this was the outcome of a comprehensive study being carried out by the ministry, with the study also providing prevalence data on vaping.
Smokeless tobacco (SLT) causes the excessive production of reactive oxygen species, leading to oxidative damage and carcinogenesis. The present study aimed to evaluate the levels of biomarkers, such as glutathione (GSH) in the blood, as well as serum albumin and total protein levels in SLT users with oral precancerous and cancerous lesions.
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