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, ...
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...
Nigar Nargis, Akm Ghulam Hussain, Mark Goodchild, Anne CK Quah et al.
) to machine-made low-price cigarettes. Third, the tobacco industry's market expansion and differential pricing strategy changed the relative price to keep low-price cigarettes inexpensive. A high tax share alone may prove inadequate as a barometer of effective tobacco taxation in lower-middle incom...
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,...
Nigar Nargis, A. K. M. Ghulam Hussain, Mark Goodchild, Anne C K Quah et al.
The effectiveness of tax increase in reducing tobacco use depends on the extent to which the industry passes on the tax to consumers. Evidence suggests that tobacco industry may absorb or raise the price more than the tax increase depending on the price segment of tobacco products. In this paper, we...
Daniel Tzu-Hsuan Chen, Nigar Nargis, Geoffrey T. Fong, Syed Mahfuzul Huq et al.
Background: In Southeast Asia, tobacco use is a major public health threat. Tobacco users in this region may switch between or concurrently use smoked tobacco and smokeless tobacco (SLT), which makes effective tobacco control challenging. This study tracks transitions of use among different product ...
Junchen Deng, Hock Jin Quah
A comprehensive probe was conducted to compare the impact of postdeposition annealing at 700°C in different ambient of nitrogen–oxygen–nitrogen (NON), forming gas–oxygen–forming gas (FGOFG), and argon–oxygen–argon (ArOAr) on the passivating characteristics of thulium oxide (Tm 2 O 3 ) on the silicon...
Daniel Tzu-Hsuan Chen, Nigar Nargis, Geoffrey T. Fong, Syed Mahfuzul Huq et al.
INTRODUCTION: Transitions between different tobacco products are frequent among tobacco users in Bangladesh; however, the reasons leading to such transitions and why they quit are not well researched. The aim of the study is to examine perceptions and reasons reported by tobacco users in Bangladesh ...
Junchen Deng, Jianhong Chen, Hock Jin Quah
Enhancement of the metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) characteristics for a thulium oxynitride (TmxOyNz) passivation layer (PL) on 4H-silicon carbide (SiC) was achieved through the development of a dual-stage process. This methodology comprised rapid thermal annealing in a nitrogen (N2) ambient, follow...