BACKGROUND Data on the prevalence of tobacco use among teenagers in Greece are limited. We examined the prevalence of smoking among middle-school students in Greece using the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). METHODS The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was implemented in Greece during the academic year 2004-2005 by the University of Thessaly and the National School of Public Health. Data were c...

Neurological inflammatory diseases are developing rapidly. Different factors involved in the pathogenesis of these diseases. In this article, we discuss some of the mechanisms are dealt with. An aberrant procedure of beta-amyloid precursor protein (BAPP) to form neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptides and an accumulated insoluble polymer of beta –amyloid (BA) that forms the senile plaque. The ab...

Misinformation about tobacco products is ubiquitous in the public communication environment. This information is promulgated via tobacco product marketing strategies as well as the inferences that consumers make and then circulate to others in the fast-moving new media world. Misinformation can be explicit or implicit. Explicit misinformation is factually incorrect (low nicotine cigarettes are ...

The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the adoption of the Convention would seem to unlock the treaty-making powers of WHO; the impact of the Convention in the global health architecture has been phenomenal globally; t...

This research was done aimed to investigation the effective factors on production skills of tobacco growers in Mazandaran province. This is an applied study based on descriptive-correlation method. Statistical population of this research consisted of 1500 tobacco growers  of Mazandaran province, and 306 people were selected based on Morgan table. Content validity of the questionnaire was determ...