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Tobacco Smoking Prevalence, Health Risk, and Cessation in the UAE

OBJECTIVES: Tobacco smoking is a major public health concern and a leading cause of preventable death. We sought to review epidemiological studies available on the prevalence of tobacco use, the associated health effects, and interventions that have undergone evaluation concerning smoking cessation...

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Autores principales: Razzak, Hira Abdul, Harbi, Alya, Ahli, Shaima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904941
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.107
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description OBJECTIVES: Tobacco smoking is a major public health concern and a leading cause of preventable death. We sought to review epidemiological studies available on the prevalence of tobacco use, the associated health effects, and interventions that have undergone evaluation concerning smoking cessation and prevention in the UAE. METHODS: An electronic search of the PubMed and Scopus databases was conducted using appropriate keywords for articles published between 2007 and 2017. We included all English-language articles in addition to research articles on the UAE populations (including both citizens and expatriates). RESULTS: Fourteen articles were included, of which 11 were cross-sectional studies, one was a cohort longitudinal study, one was quasi-experimental, and one case-control study. Our results suggest that current smoking prevalence estimates vary widely. This is the first study in the region to review the smoking prevalence, health risk, and interventions in the UAE. CONCLUSIONS: UAE Government demonstrated excellent efforts by raising the cost of smoking through taxation, mounting sustained social marketing campaigns, and ensuring that health professionals routinely advise smokers to stop smoking accompanied by behavioral and pharmacological support for cessation. Hence, future research should be more focused on evaluating the outcome and impact of current anti-smoking campaigns.
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spelling pubmed-74620682020-09-04 Tobacco Smoking Prevalence, Health Risk, and Cessation in the UAE Razzak, Hira Abdul Harbi, Alya Ahli, Shaima Oman Med J Review Article OBJECTIVES: Tobacco smoking is a major public health concern and a leading cause of preventable death. We sought to review epidemiological studies available on the prevalence of tobacco use, the associated health effects, and interventions that have undergone evaluation concerning smoking cessation and prevention in the UAE. METHODS: An electronic search of the PubMed and Scopus databases was conducted using appropriate keywords for articles published between 2007 and 2017. We included all English-language articles in addition to research articles on the UAE populations (including both citizens and expatriates). RESULTS: Fourteen articles were included, of which 11 were cross-sectional studies, one was a cohort longitudinal study, one was quasi-experimental, and one case-control study. Our results suggest that current smoking prevalence estimates vary widely. This is the first study in the region to review the smoking prevalence, health risk, and interventions in the UAE. CONCLUSIONS: UAE Government demonstrated excellent efforts by raising the cost of smoking through taxation, mounting sustained social marketing campaigns, and ensuring that health professionals routinely advise smokers to stop smoking accompanied by behavioral and pharmacological support for cessation. Hence, future research should be more focused on evaluating the outcome and impact of current anti-smoking campaigns. OMJ 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7462068/ /pubmed/32904941 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.107 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2020 by the OMSB. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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title_short Tobacco Smoking Prevalence, Health Risk, and Cessation in the UAE
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904941
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.107
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