Jeremy Morton, Yang Song, Heba Fouad, Fatimah El Awa et al.
OBJECTIVE: Evidence shows that smoking tobacco using a waterpipe is significantly associated with diseases. Despite this, waterpipe use seems to be increasing worldwide, though nationally representative data are not widely available. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) provides an opportunity to ...
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...
Luhua Zhao, Lazarous Mbulo, Evelyn Twentyman, Krishna Palipudi et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use is associated with multiple adverse health effects. It is prominent in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, but disparities in use within and across these countries are not well documented or understood. This study assessed the prevalence, patterns, and correlates...
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...