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Smoking cessation on the African continent: Challenges and opportunities

Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s single biggest preventable causes of death. Over 8 million people die each year of a tobacco-related illness – both directly and as a result of second-hand smoke. Combating this epidemic requires commitment from policy makers, healthcare workers and civil societ...

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Autores principales: Batini, C, Ahmed, T, Ameer, S, Kilonzo, G, Ozoh, O B, van Zyl-Smit, R N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: South African Medical Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8278988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34286248
http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/AJTCCM.2019.v25i2.015
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author Batini, C
Ahmed, T
Ameer, S
Kilonzo, G
Ozoh, O B
van Zyl-Smit, R N
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description Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s single biggest preventable causes of death. Over 8 million people die each year of a tobacco-related illness – both directly and as a result of second-hand smoke. Combating this epidemic requires commitment from policy makers, healthcare workers and civil society. The WHO has invested extensively in supporting policy frameworks to assist countries to combat tobacco advertising, sales and promotion. Despite these interventions, over 1 billion people actively smoke, of whom >80% live in low- or middle-income countries. Strong policies, high taxation and cigarette pricing dissuade smokers effectively, but the clinician is frequently the individual who is faced with the smoker wishing to quit. Although many African countries have policies regarding tobacco control, very few have programmes to support smokers who wish to quit, and even fewer have active training programmes to equip healthcare practitioners to assist active smokers in breaking their addiction to nicotine. We present a perspective from several countries across the African continent, highlighting the challenges and opportunities to work together to build capacity for smoking cessation services throughout Africa.
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spelling pubmed-82789882021-07-19 Smoking cessation on the African continent: Challenges and opportunities Batini, C Ahmed, T Ameer, S Kilonzo, G Ozoh, O B van Zyl-Smit, R N Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med Research Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s single biggest preventable causes of death. Over 8 million people die each year of a tobacco-related illness – both directly and as a result of second-hand smoke. Combating this epidemic requires commitment from policy makers, healthcare workers and civil society. The WHO has invested extensively in supporting policy frameworks to assist countries to combat tobacco advertising, sales and promotion. Despite these interventions, over 1 billion people actively smoke, of whom >80% live in low- or middle-income countries. Strong policies, high taxation and cigarette pricing dissuade smokers effectively, but the clinician is frequently the individual who is faced with the smoker wishing to quit. Although many African countries have policies regarding tobacco control, very few have programmes to support smokers who wish to quit, and even fewer have active training programmes to equip healthcare practitioners to assist active smokers in breaking their addiction to nicotine. We present a perspective from several countries across the African continent, highlighting the challenges and opportunities to work together to build capacity for smoking cessation services throughout Africa. South African Medical Association 2019-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8278988/ /pubmed/34286248 http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/AJTCCM.2019.v25i2.015 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial Works License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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