Reducing tobacco consumption

Reducing tobacco consumption.

With the exception of Singapore, where few women smoke for cultural reasons, and Sweden, where the high use of oral sucking tobacco (or snus) in men has depressed cigarette smoking, Australia now has the lowest national smoking prevalence in the world. In Australia in 2001, 19.5 per cent of people over 14 years of age smoked on a daily basis. This is the first time that smoking prevalence in Au...

How Effective are Taxes in Reducing Tobacco Consumption?

Reducing tobacco addiction through tobacco product regulation.

Tobacco product regulation has the potential to help reduce tobacco attributable disease by reducing the toxicity of these products and by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use and addiction.

Reducing tobacco use in adolescents.

After steadily decreasing since the late 1990s, adolescent smoking rates have stabilized at levels well above national goals. Experts recommend screening for tobacco use and exposure at every patient visit, although evidence of improved outcomes in adolescents is lacking. Counseling should be provided using the 5-A method (ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange). All smokers should be offered...

Lung cancer and tobacco consumption.

To evaluate the role of the medical profession in the Third Reich is a delicate and difficult task. Its participation in major atrocities was, to a large extent, hushed up and recent reports of medical opposition may, in many cases, be exaggerated. Much of the evidence has been destroyed or is not easily accessible. Furthermore, an objective view is potentially clouded by a number of issues rel...