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E-cigarettes slow down the decline in adolescent smoking in New Zealand
Global tobacco control has achieved remarkable success in reducing smoking, in a bid to safeguard public health. However, the proliferation of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has impeded the efforts by acting as a gateway to smoking in young people. Recent research in New Zealand suggested that e-cigarette use might have slowed down the decline in the youth smoking prevalence.
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The Maldives has introduced the smoke-free generation policy
The Maldives has taken a historic step in public health to adopt a nationwide smoke-free generation policy, manifesting the government’s commitment to protect the next generation from harms of smoking.
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Global public health organization advises health taxes to reduce noncommunicable diseases
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill over 43 million people worldwide every year, and cause huge economic burden and healthcare costs. Major NCDs include cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. Smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, unhealthy diets, harmful drinking and physical inactivity are the four main risk factors of NCDs.
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WHO released the latest report on global trends in tobacco use
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a report to update the global trends in tobacco use from 2000 to 2024 and project the trends until 2030. Globally, the tobacco use prevalence is on a decreasing track but the target to achieve 30% relative reduction from the tobacco use prevalence in 2010 by 2025 will fall through.
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WHO warns against increased risks of child stunting associated with smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in pregnant women
Stunting in children is characterized by height falling significantly below the median for their age and sex as set out by the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards. Stunting is associated with higher mortality and morbidity, and has negative effects on cognitive development, academic performance and in adulthood, economic productivity. The WHO has recently released a brief report on and warned against the impact of smoking on child stunting.
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Plain packaging helps prevent relapse in ex-smokers
With brand logos, colours and other design elements, tobacco packages are an important tool for the tobacco industry to promote their products, especially in places with strict restrictions on tobacco advertising. By mandating all tobacco packages to remove brand logos and use the specified colour and font style, plain packaging eliminates brand elements and remove advertising and promotion effect from the packages. The measure aims to prevent smoking uptake and encourage quitting. A study in the United Kingdom (UK) reveals that plain packing can help ex-smokers to avoid re-initiating smoking behaviours.
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