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A UN report on the elimination of racial discrimination features Slovakia.

After a two-year hiatus because of restrictions imposed by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the ProEtnica Intercultural Festival, the most important...

A heated tobacco stick used in an Iqos device contains more than 4mg of nicotine, eight times the amount often claimed by the multinational tobacco company

During the extended meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held on July 8 this year, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov placed special emphasis on the need to take further steps to promote the environmental initiatives of Turkmenistan and develop effective c...

Mei Zhang, Ling Yang, Limin Wang, and colleagues report on trends in smoking prevalence in China based on nationally representative data from the China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance surveys between 2007-2018.

The Oman Tax Authority has announced new timelines for the phased implementation of its Digital Tax Stamps project – an initiative designed to help regulate the import, trade and...

Smoking poses a serious risk of early preventable death and disease especially for women living with socio-economic disadvantage (SED). A smoking cessation programme, ‘We Can Quit’, was developed in Ireland tailored to SED women. This includes group-based support delivered by trained lay local community facilitators (CFs) and free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). The intervention was pilot tested in a cluster randomised controlled trial, ‘We Can Quit 2’. This paper rep...

Given the current rate of cigarette use in Armenia, the World Health Organization estimates that of the 600,000 smokers in Armenia today, nearly 300,000 will prematurely die due to cigarette use. 

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