Rumana Huque, MMostafa Zaman, Syed Mahfuzul Huq, DhirendraN Sinha
Despite the high prevalence of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among adults in Bangladesh, SLT was not included in the Tobacco Control Law till 2013. Information on SLT use among Bangladeshi people is inadequate for policymaking and implementing effective control measures. With the aim to identify the p...
Akm Ghulam Hussain, Abu Shara Shamsur Rouf, Shafiun Nahin Shimul, Nigar Nargis et al.
The extent of tobacco cultivation remains substantially high in Bangladesh, which is the 12th largest tobacco producer in the world. Using data from a household survey of current, former, and never tobacco farmers, based on a multi-stage stratified sampling design with a mix of purposive and random ...
Mohammad Mostafa Zaman, MR Bhuiyan, Syed Mahfuzul Huq, MM Rahman et al.
INTRODUCTION: Dual use of tobacco (using smoking and smokeless forms) in Bangladesh is uncommon in women but common in men. Dual users are at additional risk of cancers and heart diseases compared with a single form of tobacco use. Knowledge about their socioeconomic background is necessary for plan...
Rumana Huque, Zunayed Al Azdi, Aziz Sheikh, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia et al.
Smokeless tobacco (ST) remains poorly regulated in Bangladesh. This study describes the prevalence and trends of ST use in Bangladesh, presents ST-related disease burden, identifies relevant policy gaps, and highlights key implications for future policy and practice for effective ST control in Bangl...
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 ...
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 ...
Paraskevi Κatsaounou, Christina Gratziou, Carlos Jiménez Ruiz, Marine Faure et al.
<b>Aim:</b> In 2016, WHO and ERS, formed a novel collaboration -a successive 3y project to support WHO’s training activities for building capacity of WHO Member States to provide tobacco cessation interventions (TCIs) to all patients with respiratory diseases, both in hospital and primary care setti...