Special Issue "Smoking and Tobacco Control"
QuicklinksA special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2009)
Special Issue Editor
Guest Editor
Dr. Jennifer Kahende
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health/Epidemiology Branch, K-50 Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Interests: tobacco research; public health; health disparities; health economics; HIV/AIDS prevention; health promotion and disease prevention
Published Papers
Special Issue Information
- free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions- Free publication for manuscripts submitted by end of 2008.
- Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online (we started to publish papers quickly since September 2008). The printed edition will only be continued for the Proceedings of the yearly International Symposiums on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research starting 2009.
Related Special Issue:
Tobacco Smoking and Public Health
Special Requirement for this Special Issue
A "Conflict of Interest" statement must be included into the manuscript and added before the References and Notes section.
Submission
The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an Open Access journal, with the main Editorial Office located in Basel, Switzerland. It has been accepted for coverage in Science Citation Index Expanded, available as the Web of Science and in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Coverage will begin with the 2009 issues. This journal is also abstracted and indexed very rapidly by Chemical Abstracts, MedLine/PubMed and EMBASE. The IJERPH maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Well written papers have been peer-reviewed and published in less than 4 weeks from manuscript submission. All papers published in IJERPH have DOI numbers.
All papers should be submitted to ijerph@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editor. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at this special issue website.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 300 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.). Free publication in open access format for manuscripts submitted in 2008.
Keywords
- tobacco smoking
- nicotine addiction
- health effects
- lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disease
- psychological effects
- cigarette, cigar, pipe, smoking cessation
- restrictions on cigarette advertising and promotions
- tobacco tax increases
- tobacco lobby and companies
- package warnings
- public smoking bans, secondhand tobacco smoke, tobacco
- consumption reduction
- anti-tobacco education programs
- tobacco smuggling
- tobacco counter-marketing
- anti-tobacco policymaking
Planned Papers
Title: Social Representations of Smoking Behaviour in Adolescents
Authors: Sílvia Fraga1,*, Elisabete Ramos1, Isabel Dias2 and Henrique Barros1
Affiliation: 1Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Porto Medical School; Cardiovascular R&D Unit; Institute of Public Health, University of Porto; Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
2Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto; Via panoramic s/n, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel.: +351 225513652; Fax: +351 225513653; E-Mail: silfraga@med.up.pt (Sílvia Fraga)
Abstract: In order to identify adolescents’ social representations on smoking behaviour, we conducted thirty semi-structured interviews. Due to this qualitative approach we realised that adolescents are aware of the serious health implications of smoking, but they only referred it as a long-term effect in adulthood and no consequences during adolescence were for seen. This study supports the importance of no-smoking campaigns among adolescents but alerts to the importance of emphasizing timely information about the consequences of smoking in adolescence.
Keywords: Social representations; Adolescents; Smoking behaviour
Title: Susceptibility to Smoke and Its Implication for Mexico’s Tobacco Control Local Programs. Analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003-2006.
Authors: Raydel Valdes-Salgado1, 2, *, Luz Miriam Reynales-Shiguematsu 1, Eduardo C Lazcano-Ponce 1, Mauricio Hernandez-Avila 3
Affiliation: 1 Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico)
2 Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3 Ministry of Health, Mexico
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel.: 410 502-2956; E-Mail: rvaldes@jhsph.edu
Abstract: Smoking prevention efforts should either prevent target groups from becoming susceptible to smoking or prevent susceptible adolescents from progressing to more advanced stages in tobacco consumption. Objective: To describe susceptibility to smoke among never smoker students from 21 Mexican cities and to compare change in susceptibility to smoke by comparing results from the GYTS conducted in 9 cities in 2003 and 2006. Methods: The GYTS uses a two-stage cluster sample survey design that produces representative samples of students aged 12-16 years enrolled in public, private, and technical schools. The survey was undertaken at 690 schools in 21 cities. The GYTS surveyed 58,004 students during the academic years 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2006-07. Results: Among never smokers, about 25% are likely to initiate smoking in the next 12 months. In only 3 cities susceptibility to smoke is different by gender. When comparing results from 2003 and 2006, the susceptibility index have not changed, but for one city. Conclusions: The GYTS results are useful for monitoring susceptibility to smoking among adolescents and provide evidence for reorienting the efforts of local tobacco control programs in Mexico.
Keywords: Susceptibility to smoke, adolescents, GYTS, tobacco control, Mexico.
Title: Preventing Environmental Tobacco Exposure through Voluntary Policies in Multiunit Housing
Author: Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
E-mail: baezcond@usc.edu
Abstract: Renters of multiunit housing worldwide find themselves exposed to drifting smoke; often in spite of strong home policies to protect their children from tobacco exposure. This paper describes the Regale Salud campaign, an evidence-based community norm change project grounded in Mexican culture and values that generated support for voluntary policies to control tobacco exposure. Utilizing principles of the environmental change model, Regale Salud changed the shared environment in targeted communities resulting in voluntary policies to eliminate tobacco smoke. Findings provide strategies for increasing knowledge and changing attitudes to support regulation of secondhand smoke exposure. These efforts have the potential of re-energizing the anti-smoking movement as various states of the Union and countries, who have ratified the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), seek to protect their citizens from secondhand smoke exposure.
Type of Paper: Article
Title: “Because You Cant”: a qualitative study of smokers following the introduction of the no-smoking legislation in Wales.
Author: Prof. Odette Parry
Affiliation: Director of the Social Inclusion Research Unit (SIRU); Glyndwr University; Ffordd yr Wyddgrug, Wrecsam, Cymru. LL11 2AW. Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales.
E-mails: o.parry@glyndwr.ac.uk
Abstract: Despite the identification of reduction of smoking among low income groups as a priority area, and a key element of government strategy for tackling health inequalities, changing smoking-related attitudes and behaviour has been found most difficult in deprived communities. It is here where smoking prevalence is highest and health inequalities most pronounced, that smokers appear most resilient to quitting. In understanding why this is so, we have empathised with disadvantaged smokers, by focussing on the social context of smoking and highlighting, for example, the ways in they use cigarettes not only to satisfy symptoms of nicotine withdrawal but also to cope with different aspects of their daily lives. Our unease about the disadvantaged smoker is reflected in a concern that no-smoking legislation may further stigmatise those already disadvantaged, and have negative implications for self esteem among this group. The paper draws on a qualitative evaluation of the Welsh no-smoking legislation, to challenge such assumptions by illustrating how, the no-smoking legislation in Wales was (often welcomed and) used successfully by smokers as a strategy for reducing nicotine intake, breaking the ‘habit’ and, in this way, gaining control over smoking. Because of this, the no-smoking legislation in Wales appears to have increased self esteem among many smokers, even among most committed smokers living in disadvantaged communities.
Title: To be added soon
Authors: Lisa Hepp, Benjamin Apelberg, Erika Avila-Tang and Patrick Breysse *
Affiliation: Division of Environmental Health Engineering, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel.: +410-955-3608; Fax: + 410-955-9334; E-Mail: pbreysse@jhsph.edu
Abstract: Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a cause of heart disease and lung cancer. SHS exposure has declined in many developed countries due to reductions in smoking prevalence and increased smoking restrictions in indoor places. However, in many developing countries smoking prevalence remains high and smoking restriction policies are limited. Questionnaires have been routinely been used to gauge exposure to SHS. While they are relatively easy to implement they do not provide quantitative estimates of SHS exposure, specifically in public places which often have varying patterns of exposure. Monitoring of SHS provides important information about the locations where individuals are exposed to SHS, the level of their exposure, and their resultant magnitude of risk. The 2006 report of the US Surgeon General extensively reviewed and compiled the literature for levels of SHS in various settings. The report did not specifically focus on the US; however a majority of the findings did come from the US. In this study, we conducted a literature search of studies measuring concentrations of SHS in international settings in order to describe SHS exposure levels globally and to determine the extent of SHS air monitoring conducted to date. Such information will be useful in assessing the global burden of SHS exposure. PubMed was searched for relevant articles, reference lists and abstracts for SHS air monitoring studies utilizing active or passive sampling methods conducted outside the United States.
Last update: 30 July 2009