Browsing by Subject "tobacco"
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A Pilot Tobacco Intervention Study in Palau, Micronesia
(2018)Tobacco has been recognized as a serious public health issue that threatens people’s health in Palau, Micronesia, especially as young people consume tobacco in multiple ways. The research of this thesis begins with a description ... -
Causes and Impacts of Institutional and Structural Variation: Globalization in the Tobacco and Pork Industries
(2010)Among the most significant changes to the agricultural sector in the twentieth century include a sharp decline in employment and the numbers of farms, a decline in the proportion of total value that accrues to agricultural ... -
E-Cigarette Use Among Adult Primary Care Patients: Results from a Multisite Study.
(Journal of general internal medicine, 2020-01)BACKGROUND:Primary care settings provide opportunities to identify electronic-cigarette (e-cigarette) use and to implement strategies for changing tobacco use behavior. However, a better understanding of the extent and associated ... -
Empirical measurement of illicit tobacco trade in the Philippines.
(Philipp Rev Econ, 2014-12)Cigarette smuggling reduces the price of cigarettes, thwarts youth access restrictions, reduces government revenue, and undercuts the ability of taxes to reduce consumption. The tobacco industry often opposes increases to ... -
Health benefits and economic advantages associated with increased utilization of a smoking cessation program.
(Journal of comparative effectiveness research, 2020-08-20)Rationale, aim & objective: The goal of this study was to examine the health and economic impacts related to increased utilization of the Duke Smoking Cessation Program resulting from the addition of two relatively new referral ... -
Pilot Cohorts for Development of Concurrent Mobile Treatment for Alcohol and Tobacco Use Disorders.
(Substance abuse : research and treatment, 2021-01)Alcohol and tobacco are the 2 most frequently used drugs in the United States and represent the highest co-occurrence of polysubstance use. The objective of this study was to refine an intervention combining mobile contingency ... -
Recent and active problematic substance use among primary care patients: Results from the alcohol, smoking, and substance involvement screening test in a multisite study.
(Substance abuse, 2021-04-02)Background: Primary care settings provide salient opportunities for identifying patients with problematic substance use and addressing unmet treatment need. The aim of this study was to examine the extent and correlates ... -
Robinson Crusoe as Promotion Literature: the Reality of English Settlement in the Chesapeake, 1624-1680
(2019-06-06)In the seventeenth century a minimum of one hundred thousand English indentured servants emigrated to the Chesapeake Bay of North America. Virginia and Maryland plantations used indentured servitude in the production of ... -
The Persistence of Smoke: Opera in One Act, Libretto by John Justice
(2011)<italic>The Persistence of Smoke</italic> is a documentary opera. The libretto is based on interviews with various individuals related to the former Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company headquarters in Durham, North Carolina.The ...
