ABSTRACT Aims To describe some of the variability across the world in levels of quit smoking attempts and use of various forms of cessation support. Design Use of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project surveys of smokers, using the 2007 survey wave (or later, where necessary)
Background: Evidence shows that smokers are generally misinformed about the relative harmfulness of nicotine, and smokeless forms of nicotine delivery in relation to smoked tobacco.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged adult-smokers, changing-trends, countries, harmfulness, knowledge, misinformation, relative, relative-safety, research, smoked-tobacco, study, tobacco
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Abstract: Background: This paper provides a summary and analysis of the regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil, from its prohibition in the mid-eighties to the recent adoption of CONAD’s (Conselho Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas) 2010 Resolution, which established a set of rules, norms and ethical principles to be applied to religious and ritual uses of ayahuasca.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged brazil, brazilian, consideration, europe, global-presence, international, japan, predicament, regulation, santo, santo-daime, scope, these-religious
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Abstract Aim: To assess the short-term temporal relationship between emergency department (ED) attendances for acute alcohol problems and assaults reported to police. Design: Cross-sectional time series analysis. Setting: Population of New South Wales (NSW), Australia between 2003 and 2008
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 100-attendances, 15-24-year-old, 15-24-year-olds, acute-alcohol, assault, cross-sectional, interest-aged, magnitude, police, public-hospital, relationship, south-wales, week-controlled, weekly-increase
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ABSTRACT Aim It has been proposed that alcohol industry social aspects/public relations’ organizations (SAPROs) serve the agenda of lending credibility to industry claims of corporate responsibility while promoting ineffective industry-friendly interventions (such as school-based education or TV advertising campaigns) and creating doubt about interventions which have a strong evidence base (such as higher taxes on alcoholic beverages).
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol, australian, determine-which, drinkwise, Evidence Base, health, healthiest, industry, industry-bodies, industry-or-its, npht, public-relations, such-as-higher, such-as-school
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ABSTRACT Aims: To assess the impact of retail displays of tobacco on tobacco smoking and purchase by smokers and attempting quitters. Design: Population based diary style survey Setting: NSW, Australia Participants: 998 smokers and 111 attempting quitters. Measurements: Demographic measures and four-hourly records over four days: number of cigarettes smoked and bought; exposure to cigarette smoking by friends/family or other smokers, and exposure to retail displays of tobacco
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged more-cigarettes, people-exposed, probability, reported-seeing, retail-displays, saw-cigarettes, smokers, the-following, the-four-hour, time, tobacco, tobacco-smoking
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Since 2006, Australia has had graphic image warnings on cigarette packages. Now announced this week, the liquor industry is volunteering to label its products with health warnings also.
Scientists have found that addictive drugs may take over the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that cause one’s chemistry to crave salt in their daily routines in a new study from down under Australia in association with America’s own Duke University. The study is the first of its kind to examine gene regulation in the hypothalamus for salt appetite…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged america, brain, crave-salt, daily, drugs-may, examine-gene, hypothalamus, nerve-cells, nutrition / diet, over-the-same, take-over, the-brain, the-first
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ABSTRACT Aims To identify prevalence of alcohol and drug use and intoxication at work. Participants A total of 9828 Australian workers 14 years old. Setting Australia 2007
Abstract Aim: This paper examines how smokers’ beliefs about light/ mild cigarettes in Australia, Canada and the UK were affected by the removal of misleading light/mild terms from packs.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged after-the-bans, carbon-monoxide, countries, country-survey, from-the-first, international, survey, tobacco, tobacco-control, united-kingdom, united-states
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