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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Tobacco Epidemic"”.
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Predictors of an Intention to Quit Waterpipe Smoking among Arab Americans: Application of The Theory of Planned Behavior
Introduction: As the second global tobacco epidemic since the cigarette, waterpipe smoking has been rapidly spreading among youth around the world in the past decade. Middle Eastern ethnicity or having a friend of Middle Eastern ethnicity have been reported as significant predictors of waterpipe …
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Modeling and Twitter-based Surveillance of Smoking Contagion
… in the form of cigarette smoking, chewing tobacco, and most recently as vapor smoking, is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the world. Since smoking imposes a significant health-care and economic burden on the population, there have been sustained and significant efforts for …
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Improving smoking cessation for vulnerable populations in low-resourced settings
Tobacco smoking remains one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Global estimates indicate that there are approximately 1.3 billion smokers worldwide; tobacco smoking contributed to an estimated 7.7 million deaths and 200 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2019, …