Choosing the most effective health promotion options for reducing a nation's smoking prevalence

Reid, Donald; Killoran, Amanda; McNeill, Ann; Chambers, Jacky

doi:10.1136/tc.1.3.185

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“…1 8 As approx i m at e l y 26 per cent of the Australian population smokes 19 it is estimated that dentists see over one million smokers per year. If, as shown in GP studies, dentists counselled their patients who smoke to quit and just 5 per cent did so 20 then dentists would contribute to 50 000 more non-smokers each year.…”

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Dentists' attitudes and practice regarding smoking

Clover¹,

Hazell²,

Stanbridge³

et al. 1999

Australian Dental Journal

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Dentists are a potentially valuable source of community education about the health effects surrounding tobacco use. The aims of this study were to provide Australian data on dentists' current practice regarding discussing smoking with patients, dentists' perceptions of the barriers to discussing smoking with patients and dentists' interest in discussing smoking with patients. A postal survey of all dentists who were members of the Hunter Branch of the Australian Dental Association in New South Wales was conducted. Dentists generally reported quite high levels of current activity reported quite high levels of current activity regarding smoking. The majority of dentists reported asking at least some of their patients whether or not they smoked. Dentists reported that they discussed the possible oral effects of smoking with at least some of their smoking patients. Furthermore, they told at least some of their patients with smoking related disease that smoking may have contributed to their problems. Dentists identified a number of difficulties involved in helping patients quit smoking. These findings may be used to help guide future research and practice in involving dentists further in discussing smoking with patients.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…20 Thus, it could be argued that dentists may not reach those groups identified as more likely to smoke. However, this may be offset to some extent by the possibility that dentists are likely to see smokers due to the increased prevalence of oral disease among smokers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Dentists' attitudes and practice regarding smoking

Clover¹,

Hazell²,

Stanbridge³

et al. 1999

Australian Dental Journal

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“…"Policy follows prevalence" said Kenneth Warner, an international tobacco control expert (quoted in D. J. Reid, Killoran, McNeill, and Chambers (1992)), and several ecological studies which used the country as a unit of analysis found that European countries with more stringent tobacco policies have fewer smokers-although the association is not very strong (Martinez-Sanchez et al, 2010;Willemsen, Kiselinova, Nagelhout, Joossens, & Knibbe, 2012). The direction of causality is not clear and obviously goes in two directions, as is captured in the flywheel model.…”

Section: Smoking Ratesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social and Cultural Environment

Willemsen

2018

Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands

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Policy is not made in a vacuum. Disputes over tobacco control are fought within changing policy environments. This chapter explores key population-level factors that influence a national government's decision to adopt tobacco control policy measures. These factors include social norms about smoking, the proportion of smokers in the population, societal support for tobacco control, and cultural values. These factors are interrelated in a specific way and to understand this, we will take a short detour into what is sometimes called "system thinking in tobacco control." Ten years ago, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) published a monograph on this topic (Best, Clark, Leichow, & Trochim, 2007), which acknowledged the complexity of tobacco control at the national level, involving as it does the interplay of factors over long periods of time, including feedback loops. According to experts from the NCI, a government's willingness to acknowledge and address the smoking problem follows from its level of awareness that tobacco is a problem, and from the balance of lobbying forces that propose or hold back policy solutions. A government's awareness of the problems associated with tobacco is further affected by specific population factors that are amenable to change. A country's smoking rate is one of these: as long as the proportion of smokers is high, the government is more likely to be aware that there is a public health risk that needs to be addressed. Changes in the number of smokers also affect public support for tobacco control, which increases when adult smoking rates go

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“…Including this term reduced the deviance by 60.06 (4 df) for current smoking and 49.7 (4 df) for daily smoking, both of these reductions were statistically significant @<0.001). When adjusted for sex, ethnicity, and the interaction between sex and ethnicity, the prevalence of current smoking in 1991 was 18% (95% confidence interval [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. This overall level increased to 28% (1 5-46) in the six years covered by the study, so that the odds of current smoking in 1997 were 1.92 (0.76-4.83) times those in 1991.…”

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