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Impact of tobacco-control legislation.
Oncology nurses should be aware of smoking-related public health legislation and tobacco use prevention resources as well as increase their knowledge of psycho-education materials, medications, and products available to aid smoking cessation. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death; one out of five deaths in the United States is attributed to smoking. Each day, almost 4,000 Americans ...
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Kanagawa Prefecture became the first subnational government in Japan to implement an ordinance for the prevention of exposure to secondhand-smoke in public facilities. The ordinance aims to protect people from the negative health impacts of secondhand smoke; however, it has wide exemptions especially for hospitality and leisure business establishments. In addition, designated smoking areas are ...
متن کاملTobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate how transnational tobacco companies, working through their local affiliates, influenced tobacco control policymaking in Argentina between 1966 and 2005. METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents, local newspapers and magazines, internet resources, bills from the Argentinean National Congress Library, and interviews with key individuals in Argentina. RESUL...
متن کاملPending legislation and tobacco industry deception.
In 1964, the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, establishing the link between cigarette smoking and several debilitating or deadly diseases, caused instant worldwide reaction. The report revealed that cigarette smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. Over the years, the surgeon general has issued numero...
متن کاملThe development of Tobacco Harm Prevention Law in Vietnam: stakeholder tensions over tobacco control legislation in a state owned industry
BACKGROUND Building on its National Tobacco Control Policy initiated in 2000, Vietnam is currently considering introducing a comprehensive law to strengthen the implementation of tobacco control policy. This study analyses the positions of key stakeholders in the development of tobacco control legislation in the context of a largely state-owned industry, and discusses their implications for the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.89.8.1273-a