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knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning smoking among 1,630 students in 40 high schools in Madiun City, Malang City …, Jember Regency and Bangkalan Regency in 2003. Factors which predispose, enable, and reinforce smoking were examined to … smoking rate. Students were aware of the health risks associated with smoking but underestimated how addictive cigarettes are …
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standardized school-based survey of teenage smoking behavior, attitudes and knowledge. This report presents background information … on smoking and tobacco control policies in Russia. It presents simple descriptive statistics of the GYTS survey data …, focusing especially on the relationship between smoking behavior, cigarette prices, and other factors that can be affected by …
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associated with smoking in Estonia for 1998, looking at health care costs, fires, loss of household income, productivity losses …
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Smoking is the single largest cause of premature mortality in the developed world. Obtaining accurate estimates of … smoking's impacts in south east Europe (SEE) is hindered by the lack of accurate data.. None of the countries of the region … yet conduct regular national surveys of adult smoking prevalence and some have no recent nationally representative data …
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This report summarizes the health consequences and costs associated with tobacco use. It reviews price trends for tobacco products in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand and Sri Lanka. It reports trends in government tobacco tax revenues and how tobacco products are currently taxed in...
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This report summarizes 46 studies on various aspects of tobacco in Indonesia published since 1990. Studies are arranged alphabetically by author's last name. The studies include tobacco use surveys, studies on tobacco-related mortality and diseases including costs, and health problems associated...
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This paper describes trends in tobacco use in Sri Lanka, assesses the economic contribution of the industry (jobs, earnings, tax revenues and trade balance), and analyses the relationship between demand for cigarettes and prices and incomes, looking at different socioeconomic groups. It uses the...
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smoking prevalence in Myanmar show varying results, but most suggest that over 50% of the population over the age of 15 smoke …
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This paper first estimates the number of tobacco users in 2000 and cigarette consumption from 1970 to 2000 by regions and levels of development and briefly discusses the advantages and disadvantages of estimating tobacco use on the basis of prevalence surveys or aggregate data. Secondly,...
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This study examines the economics of tobacco production and demand in Egypt. It reviews previous studies of demand for cigarettes in Egypt, consumption tends in Egypt, in the context of regional trends, and the data on tobacco-attributable diseases in Egypt. It describes the structure and trends...
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