Women and Tobacco- An Overview

Kulkarni, Namratha

doi:10.19080/ctbeb.2017.02.555599

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“…An effective instrument was defined as an instrument that was able to meet or achieve the goal for which it was formulated, implemented and enforced. [38][39][40] ie an instrument that was able to demonstrate the ability to reduce tobacco consumption and exposure of tobacco smoke with the main focus placed on the key demand management articles as defined by WHO FCTC in articles (6,8,12,13,14). 13 Conversely, a policy instrument was regarded as ineffective if it fell short of meeting the aforementioned definition.…”

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“…For an article to be included in the final qualitative synthesis, it was supposed to meet all of the following six criteria: i) the article should be written in English language, ii) the article should concern the application of tobacco control policy instrument or tool either through government or Non-Governmental perspective, iii) the article should have a geographical area within Africa or composed of developing country in Africa, iv) the article should either be concerned with tobacco production or consumption, v) the article should have focus on the key demand management articles like (6,8,12,13,14), vi) the article should not be a duplicate of another (this was managed through using Mendeley software). Lastly, all articles that could not meet these criteria, conference papers which were not peer-reviewed, and others that just expounded on the formulation of policy instruments were excluded from the final qualitative synthesis.…”

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“…Children are either forced to provide child labour or merely forced to stay with their parents in these tobacco estates. [4][5][6][7] Literature indicates that at least 8 million people die each and every year due to tobacco-related activities, end products usage of which close to 80% of these tobacco users are from low-and middle-income countries of Africa and Middle East, where there are high consumption rates of the tobacco-related products. [8][9][10][11] With these pervasive impacts on human life, it led further to the declaration of tobacco as an epidemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 15 March 2015.…”

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Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy Instruments, Status and Effectiveness in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Munthali

Xuelian

Rizwan

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Introduction:The tobacco industry has for decades been associated with environmental damage, health-related diseases, human rights violations and corruption issues. The World Health Organisation formulated the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control with the aim of controlling tobacco production and consumption. Most of the countries on the continent of Africa were also the target of the framework given the high importation and use of tobacco products. The main aim of this study was to find out the current status of tobacco control policies and their effectiveness in Africa. Material and Methods: This study was a systematic literature review that was conducted between the months of August and November 2020 by extracting data from the databases of PubMed, Elsevier Scopus and Web of Science. Only English articles were culled from the retrieved papers. Out of the 910 papers retrieved, only 17 papers from African countries were selected on the quality synthesis after meeting the inclusion criteria. Results:The results of the study showed that three governance resources were identified of regulatory (64.70%, N=11) which had smoke-free environment, advertisement bans, and cessation programs, economics (29.41%, N=5) which were taxation measures and informative (5.886%, N=1) which were mass media campaigns. Furthermore, Western African countries especially South Africa reported many pronouncements on smoke-free environment and taxation measures. Mass media campaigns proved to be more effective policies as compared to others. Conclusion:This study recommends that the future research should be done on the effectiveness of mixed policy instruments as compared to single application. Furthermore, the researcher recommends the use of more informative policies in dealing with inelastic behaviours like those related to tobacco due to the addictive nature.

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Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy Instruments, Status and Effectiveness in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Tobacco smoke is one of the most hazardous air pollutants that causes multiple health disorders and associated with large numbers of deaths worldwide (Rebace et al, 1980, Nazaroff et al, 2004 Approximately 80 % deaths associated with tobacco consumption occur in developing countries (Kulkarni et al, 2017). In India, tobacco smoking is more common among rural women, about 0.5 % of women in urban areas and 2%, in rural areas used tobacco smoking.…”

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Analyzing the Impact of Active and Passive Tobacco Smoking On Respiratory Health of Rural Women Residing in the Kanpur Region

Katiyar¹,

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2018

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Inhaling the tobacco smoke is known health hazard that may cause many serious respiratory disorders such as COPD, asthma, lung cancer, bronchitis, etc., especially among rural women of low and middle-income countries. Continuous exposure of passive tobacco smoke may also adversely affect the respiratory health. In this study, total 145 rural women of 20-60 years age group, those involved in tobacco smoking, were selected from the Kanpur region. A high prevalence (N=121, 83.4%) of passive smoking was found among total tobacco smoking rural women. The highest percentage (54%) of active smokers was found between 50 to 60 years age group. Agricultural women showed the highest involvement in active tobacco smoking (42%) while the passive tobacco exposure was found highest among factory workers (28%). Bidi was found most popular tobacco smoking pattern among rural women (66%). Clinical manifestations such as coughing, sputum formation, difficulty in breathing, weakness, sore throat, headache, were found significantly higher among active smokers. The study concludes that the rate of passive smoking is very high among tobacco smoking rural women. Active smoking is most common among agricultural women while least common among students. Clinical manifestations were found significantly higher among active smokers than passive smokers.

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“…However, there is a debate on this, as it is also argued with vivid evidence that through the cultivation and consumption of tobacco, the industry has also brought a lot of direct and indirect pervasive negative impacts on almost all circles of human life, and also on other living and non-living things. For example, ecological and environmental related challenges that have a arisen through deforestation, health related problems through the consumption of tobacco end products like smoking cigarettes, social-human rights related challenges for special minority groups of women who are being mistreated in many farming estates and children who are being deprived of their rights to education by taking them in estates than being at schools whether in form of child labour or by merely wanting them to stay there with their parents (Doe, J., & DeSanto, 2009;Hu & Lee, 2016;Kulkarni, 2017;Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Association, 2013).…”

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Assessments of tobacco control policy instruments status and effectiveness in Africa; A systematic literature review

Munthali

Xuelian

Daru

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Background: Tobacco is one of the well-established industries in the world. Despite having some economic benefits, the industry has been for decades associated with environmental problems through deforestation, health related diseases that cause about 8 million mortality rates yearly, human rights violations and corruptions issues which are involved, World Health Organization formulated Framework Convention on Tobacco Control with the aim of controlling tobacco production and consumption, with countries from Africa being ones where its usage is increasing more. Objectives: The main aim of this study was to find out the current status of tobacco control policies and its effectiveness in Africa. Methods: This study was a systematic literature reviews that was conducted between the months of August and November 2020 through extracting data from the database of PubMed, Scopus, Google scholar and Research Gate. Only English articles were selected. Results: Out of 910 papers retrieved only 17 papers from African countries were selected on the quality thesis after meeting the inclusion criteria. The results of the study showed that three governance resources were identified of Regulatory 64.70 % N=14 which had Smoke free environment, Advertisement bans, and cessation programs, economics 24.41% N=6 which were taxation's measures and informative 5.886% N=1 which were mass media campaigns. Further, Western African countries especially South Africa reported many pronouncements on smoke free environments and taxation measures. Mass media campaigns proved to be more effective policy as compared to others. Conclusion: This study recommends that future research should be done on looking at the effectiveness of mixed policy instruments as compared to single application. Further, the researcher recommends the use of more informative policies in dealing with inelastic behaviors like those related to tobacco due to the addictive nature.

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Women and Tobacco- An Overview

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Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy Instruments, Status and Effectiveness in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Assessment of Tobacco Control Policy Instruments, Status and Effectiveness in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Analyzing the Impact of Active and Passive Tobacco Smoking On Respiratory Health of Rural Women Residing in the Kanpur Region

Assessments of tobacco control policy instruments status and effectiveness in Africa; A systematic literature review

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