Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking and passive smoking are collectively the biggest preventable cause of death in Bangladesh, with major public health burden of morbidity, disability, mortality and community costs. The available studies of tobacco use in Bangladesh, however, do not necessarily employ nationally re...
Shannon Gravely, Pete Driezen, Janine Ouimet, Anne C K Quah et al.
AIMS: This paper presents updated prevalence estimates of awareness, ever-use, and current use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) from 14 International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) countries that have varying regulations governing NVP sales and marketing. DESIGN, SETTING, ...
Nigar Nargis, Hua‐Hie Yong, Pete Driezen, Lazarous Mbulo et al.
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco smoking is often more prevalent among those with lower socio-economic status (SES) in high-income countries, which can be driven by the inequalities in initiation and cessation of smoking. Smoking is a leading contributor to socio-economic disparities in health. To date, the ev...
Pete Driezen, Abu S. Abdullah, Anne C K Quah, Nigar Nargis et al.
BACKGROUND: With about 22 million adult smokers, Bangladesh needs strong measures that would promote smoking cessation. Using data from Wave 2 of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Survey, this study examined the factors associated with intention to quit smoking among Bangladeshi smokers. METHO...
Abu S. Abdullah, Pete Driezen, Genevieve Sansone, Nigar Nargis et al.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is a serious global public health problem. Understanding the correlates of SHS exposure could guide the development of evidence based SHS exposure reduction interventions. The purpose of this study is to describe the pattern of and factors associated wi...
David Hammond, Jessica L. Reid, Pete Driezen, James F. Thrasher et al.
INTRODUCTION: More than 100 countries have implemented pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages. However, few studies have compared how consumers from different geographic and cultural contexts respond to health warning content. The current study compares perceptions of warnings among adult s...
Nigar Nargis, Michał Stokłosa, Jeffrey Drope, Geoffrey T. Fong et al.
BACKGROUND: The price of tobacco products in relation to the income of tobacco users-affordability-is recognised as a key determinant of tobacco use behaviour. The effectiveness of a price increase as a deterrent to tobacco use depends on how much price increases in relation to the income of the pot...
Abu S. Abdullah, Pete Driezen, Anne C K Quah, Nigar Nargis et al.
BACKGROUND: Research findings on the predictors of smoking cessation behavior identified in Western countries may not be generalizable to smokers in the Southeast Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh). This study examined the factors associated with smoking cessation behavior (quit attempts and smoking...
Abu S. Abdullah, Sara C Hitchman, Pete Driezen, Nigar Nargis et al.
This study assessed the pattern of exposure to tobacco smoke pollution (TSP; also known as, secondhand smoke) in Bangladeshi households with children and examined the variations in household smoking restrictions and perception of risk for children's exposure to TSP by socioeconomic status. We interv...
Abu S. Abdullah, Pete Driezen, Ummul Ruthbah, Nigar Nargis et al.
BACKGROUND: Although smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is prevalent in South Asian countries including Bangladesh, information about the pattern and correlates of SLT use is scarce. This study described the pattern and predictors of SLT use among Bangladeshi adults. METHODS: The data for this study were d...
Pete Driezen, Abu S. Abdullah, Nigar Nargis, A. K. M. Ghulam Hussain et al.
This study assessed the knowledge of the harmful effects of tobacco use among vulnerable populations in Bangladesh and whether vulnerability was associated with the presence of complete home smoking bans. Data came from Wave 3 (2011-2012) of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh Survey,...
Eva Naznin, Johnson George, Pete Driezen, Kerrin Palazzi et al.
INTRODUCTION: Cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco (ST) use are prevalent in Bangladesh. This longitudinal study examined how knowledge of the health effects of smoking and ST use in Bangladesh has changed overtime with the country's acceleration of tobacco control efforts. METHODS: Data were ana...