A gaping gap (smokeless tobacco control in Pakistan)

Oral cancer is second most common cancer in Pakistan and one of the major contributing factors to its high incidence is smokeless tobacco (SLT) use. 5.3% of Pakistan’s youth are current SLT users. The World Health Organization requires the signatories of its “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”...

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Autor principal: Khan, Zohaib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5117597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27895546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12971-016-0102-y
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description Oral cancer is second most common cancer in Pakistan and one of the major contributing factors to its high incidence is smokeless tobacco (SLT) use. 5.3% of Pakistan’s youth are current SLT users. The World Health Organization requires the signatories of its “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” to officially ban the sale of tobacco products to minors. We reviewed the Government of Pakistan’s tobacco control, and related supporting policies, to assess how these address the issue of sale of SLT products to minors and found evident gaps in this regard. Legislations need to be in place to ban the sale of SLT products to minors and avoid an SLT epidemic in the future.
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spelling pubmed-51175972016-11-28 A gaping gap (smokeless tobacco control in Pakistan) Khan, Zohaib Tob Induc Dis Review Oral cancer is second most common cancer in Pakistan and one of the major contributing factors to its high incidence is smokeless tobacco (SLT) use. 5.3% of Pakistan’s youth are current SLT users. The World Health Organization requires the signatories of its “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” to officially ban the sale of tobacco products to minors. We reviewed the Government of Pakistan’s tobacco control, and related supporting policies, to assess how these address the issue of sale of SLT products to minors and found evident gaps in this regard. Legislations need to be in place to ban the sale of SLT products to minors and avoid an SLT epidemic in the future. BioMed Central 2016-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5117597/ /pubmed/27895546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12971-016-0102-y Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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