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A call to ban the sale of tobacco products
Tobacco is both toxic and addictive. Mounting evidence shows that tobacco use has a detrimental impact on almost every aspect of human health, causing or worsening deadly public health crises from the cancer epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while tobacco use is a threat to both personal a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36438262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904971 |
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author | Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina da Veiga, Claudimar Pereira |
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description | Tobacco is both toxic and addictive. Mounting evidence shows that tobacco use has a detrimental impact on almost every aspect of human health, causing or worsening deadly public health crises from the cancer epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while tobacco use is a threat to both personal and public health, it continues to surge across the world, especially in China and other low- and middle-income countries. To this end, this article argues in favor of using a ban on the sale of all tobacco products as a practical solution to the global tobacco use epidemic. It is our hope that insights provided by our work will inspire swift policy actions in countries such as China and beyond to curb the tide of rising tobacco consumption, so that populations around the world could be better shielded from the pervasive and long-lasting damage that tobacco products cause or compound. |
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spelling | pubmed-96846402022-11-25 A call to ban the sale of tobacco products Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina da Veiga, Claudimar Pereira Front Public Health Public Health Tobacco is both toxic and addictive. Mounting evidence shows that tobacco use has a detrimental impact on almost every aspect of human health, causing or worsening deadly public health crises from the cancer epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while tobacco use is a threat to both personal and public health, it continues to surge across the world, especially in China and other low- and middle-income countries. To this end, this article argues in favor of using a ban on the sale of all tobacco products as a practical solution to the global tobacco use epidemic. It is our hope that insights provided by our work will inspire swift policy actions in countries such as China and beyond to curb the tide of rising tobacco consumption, so that populations around the world could be better shielded from the pervasive and long-lasting damage that tobacco products cause or compound. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9684640/ /pubmed/36438262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904971 Text en Copyright © 2022 Su, McDonnell, Cheshmehzangi, Ahmad, Šegalo and da Veiga. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Su, Zhaohui McDonnell, Dean Cheshmehzangi, Ali Ahmad, Junaid Šegalo, Sabina da Veiga, Claudimar Pereira A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title | A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title_full | A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title_fullStr | A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title_full_unstemmed | A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title_short | A call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
title_sort | call to ban the sale of tobacco products |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36438262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904971 |
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