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Socio-economic inequalities in smoking prevalence and involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke in Argentina: Analysis of three cross-sectional nationally representative surveys in 2005, 2009 and 2013
(Public Library of Science, 2019-06)
Background: Understanding patterns of socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption is key to design targeted public health policies for tobacco control. This study examines socio-economic inequalities in smoking and ...
Effects of a new tobacco law on the knowledge, attitudes, and habits of smokers in San José and Jacó, Costa Rica
(Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica, 2015)
The health and economic burden of smoking in 12 Latin American countries and the potential effect of increasing tobacco taxes: an economic modelling study
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background: Worldwide, smoking tobacco causes 7 million deaths annually, and this toll is expected to increase, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. In Latin America, smoking is a leading risk factor for ...
Second-hand smoke exposure in adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean: a pooled analysis
(Elsevier, 2023)
Background: Second-hand smoke exposure is prevalent amongst adolescents, despite of being a preventable risk factor associated with unfavourable outcomes. The distribution of this risk factor varies by underlying determinants ...
Socio-economic inequalities in smoking prevalence and involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke in Argentina: Analysis of three cross-sectional nationally representative surveys in 2005, 2009 and 2013
(Public Library of Science, 2019-06)
Background Understanding patterns of socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption is key to design targeted public health policies for tobacco control. This study examines socio-economic inequalities in smoking and ...
Socio-economic inequalities in smoking prevalence and involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke in Argentina: Analysis of three cross-sectional nationally representative surveys in 2005, 2009 and 2013
(Public Library of Science, 2019-06)
Background Understanding patterns of socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption is key to design targeted public health policies for tobacco control. This study examines socio-economic inequalities in smoking and ...
Low cigarette smoking prevalence in peri-urban Peru: results from a population-based study of tobacco use by self-report and urine cotinine
(European Publishing, 2017)
BACKGROUND: A recent study found lower self-reported prevalence of tobacco smoking in a peri-urban area of Lima, Peru than previously reported in urban samples. These regions encompass substantial proportions of Peru's ...
Tobacco use and dementia: Evidence from the 1066 dementia population-based surveys in Latin America, China and India
(Wiley, 2011)
Objectives: To assess the association between tobacco consumption and dementia using the same methodology in seven developing countries, testing the specific hypotheses that higher exposure to tobacco is associated with a ...
Youth working in tobacco farming: effects on smoking behavior and association with health status
(BioMed Central, 2020-01)
Background: Cultivation of tobacco raises concerns about detrimental health and social consequences for youth, but tobacco producing countries only highlight economic benefits. We compared sociodemographic and health-related ...
Prevalencia y tendencias de tabaquismo activo y pasivo en adolescentes peruanos
(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022)
Objective. This study aimed to assess the trends of different smoking indicators among Peruvian adoles-cents. Additionally, we evaluated whether such trends were different by sex or among those without pre-vious smoking ...