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Conclusions: These findings suggest that the expansion of crack pipe distribution services has likely served to reduce health problems from smoking crack in this setting. They provide evidence supporting crack pipe distribution programs as a harm reduction service for crack smokers. Keywords: Crack smoking, Crack pipe acquisition, Harm reduction
tobacco, various smokeless tobacco products, cigars, cigarillos, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, bidis and kreteks. Waterpipe tobacco use is damaging to health in similar ways to cigarette tobacco use. However, the health dangers of waterpipe tobacco use are often little understood by users. Smokeless tobacco use is highly addictive and ...
High rates of crack cocaine use have been reported among groups of street-involved youth, although exact figures vary. North American researchers have found the lifetime prevalence of crack smoking among street-involved youth to be as low as 5.8% across Canada [1], to 36% among homeless youth in New York City [2], and as high as 52% among a ...
- Tessa Cheng, Tessa Cheng, Evan Wood, Paul Nguyen, Julio Montaner, Thomas Kerr, Kora DeBeck, Kora DeB...
- 10.1111/dar.12180
- 2015
- 2015/05
Jan 9, 2024 · Tobacco use is one of the leading risk factors for disease burden and mortality worldwide, contributing to 229.8 million (95% uncertainty interval: 213.1–246.4 million) disability-adjusted life years and 8.7 million (8.1–9.3 million) deaths in 2019 (ref. 1). Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, alternatively referred to as passive or involuntary smoking, is a major tobacco-related public ...
services since commencement of pipe distribution. Seventy‐one percent used a mouthpiece on their pipe, and, 78% in the past year had never burned or cracked their lips or had only done so once or twice. Ninety‐five percent usually used glass or pyrex pipes.
Download the 2022 report. We are pleased to share with you Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends, 2022 Edition. Now in its ninth edition, this report builds on previous publications, and is a reference on tobacco use in Canada, with a focus on the most current data, as well as trend data between 1999 and 2020. This report uses data from ...
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3.2 Progress towards meeting tobacco use reduction targets 20 3.3 Trends in prevalence of tobacco smoking 23 3.3.1 At global level 23 3.3.2 Numbers of smokers 25 3.4 Levels of tobacco use, smoking and cigarette use among adults in 2020 26 3.5 Smokeless tobacco use among people aged 15 years and older 28 3.6 Smokeless tobacco use among ...
