Tobacco Use Patterns

Tobacco Use Patterns

The use of combustible tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe, bidis, kreteks, and hookah) among adults remains widespread around the world. Unless dramatic progress is made diminishing the initiation and increasing cessation of combustible tobacco product use, a billion preventable deaths will occur in the 21st century [1]. These deaths will be accompanied by unimaginable human suffe...

Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends

Patterns of adult tobacco use in Uzbekistan.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence of tobacco use in Uzbekistan, a country targeted intensively by the international tobacco industry. METHODS A national household survey elicited information about cigarette smoking and nasway use (a form of smokeless tobacco). RESULTS Prevalence of past-month smoking and nasway use among men (N=1795) was 19.6% and 22.3%, respectively, and 1.6%...

Discovering unique tobacco use patterns among Alaska Native people

BACKGROUND Alaska Native people are disproportionately impacted by tobacco-related diseases in comparison to non-Native Alaskans. DESIGN We used Alaska's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to describe tobacco use among more than 4,100 Alaska Native adults, stratified by geographic region and demographic groups. RESULTS Overall tobacco use was high: approximately 2 out of eve...

Socioeconomic Patterns of Tobacco Use–An Example from the Balkans

Department of Hygiene and Human Ecology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac and Institute of Public Health Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, Center for Informatics and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac and Institute of Public Health Kragujevac...