Krishna Palipudi, Prakash C. Gupta, Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Linda J. Andes et al.
BACKGROUND: Tobacco use has been identified as the single biggest cause of inequality in morbidity. The objective of this study is to examine the role of social determinants on current tobacco use in thirteen low-and-middle income countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used nationally represe...
Lazarous Mbulo, Krishna Palipudi, Linda J. Andes, Jeremy Morton et al.
OBJECTIVE: Children are vulnerable to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure because of limited control over their indoor environment. Homes remain the major place where children may be exposed to SHS. Our study examines the magnitude, patterns and determinants of SHS exposure in the home among children in...
Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Rama Shankar Rath, Krishna Kumar Aryal et al.
Background: The sustained anti-tobacco campaign initiated in response to the mounting evidence against tobacco smoking has driven tobacco companies and smokers to look for alternative choices, such as smokeless tobacco (SLT) products. If this strategy advances, it could undermine several gains made ...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha, SA Rizwan, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Khem Bahadur Karki et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) has long been realized as an important component of the fight for global tobacco control. It still remains a major problem in countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The objective of this study was to estimate the trends of SLT use in three countries of the SE...
Yang Song, Luhua Zhao, Krishna Palipudi, Samira Asma et al.
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) MPOWER is a technical package of six tobacco control measures that assist countries in meeting their obligations of the WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control and are proven to reduce tobacco use. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) systematically...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Ritvik Amarchand, Anand Krishnan
BACKGROUND: Tobacco control is an important strategy to reduce the disease burden caused by several noncommunicable diseases. An in-depth understanding of the sociodemographic variations in tobacco use is an important step in achieving effective tobacco control. AIMS: We aimed to estimate the age-st...
Rijo M John, Amit Yadav, Dhirendra Narain Sinha
Southeast Asia accounts for nearly 86 per cent of the smokeless tobacco (SLT) consumers in the world. The heterogeneous nature of SLT is a major impediment to using taxation as a tool to regulate SLT. This study was aimed to review issues around fiscal policies on SLT with the objective of providing...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha
B. Zolty, Praveen Sinha, Dhirendra Narain Sinha
The tobacco epidemic is an increasing threat to public health with the tobacco burden particularly high in WHO's South-East Asia Region (SEAR). The Region has many obstacles to tobacco control, but despite these challenges, significant progress has been made in many countries. Although much work sti...
Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Shekhar Grover, Harleen Kaur, Chandan Kumar et al.
Background Article 13 of the WHO FCTC provides guidelines for successful enforcement and implementation of effective measures against tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS). Evidence suggests that TAPS ban reduces tobacco use, especially among young people, while partial bans provide ...
Priyanka Ravi, Chandan Kumar, Shekhar Grover, Anshika Chandra et al.
Background Marketing of SLT products through internet is banned in 42 countries. Flavouring of SLT is banned in only in a handful of countries. There is scant literature on the internet sale of SLT products and their associated flavours. This study evaluates global online market of SLT products, the...