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ArticleDrug and alcohol review2023

Trend over time on knowledge of the health effects of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use in Bangladesh: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Bangladesh Surveys.

Eva Naznin, Johnson George, Pete Driezen, Kerrin Palazzi, Olivia Wynne, Nigar Nargis, Geoffrey T Fong, Billie Bonevski

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Article in Drug and alcohol review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Eva NazninSchool of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9484-2011
Johnson GeorgeCentre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Pete DriezenDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Kerrin PalazziHunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia.
Olivia WynneHunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia.
Nigar NargisSurveillance and Healthy Equity Science, American Cancer Society, Washington, USA.
Geoffrey T FongSchool of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Billie BonevskiFlinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Hunter Medical Research Institute · AUUniversity of Waterloo · CAAmerican Cancer Society · USFlinders University · AUMonash University · AUUniversity of Newcastle Australia · AU

Funding

Vaporized Nicotine Product Initiation Among Youth in the US, Canada, and England: Methods to Predict Uptake and Policy EfficacyP01CA200512 · NCI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI HAMMOND, DAVID · 2016 to 2025
$25.3M
Variation in Cigarettes, Tobacco use Behaviors and Exposures in ITC CountriesP01CA138389 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI CUMMINGS, KENNETH MICHAEL · 2009 to 2013
$13.4M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA138389NCI NIH HHS P01 CA200512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionCigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco (ST) use are prevalent in Bangladesh. This longitudinal study examined how knowledge of the health effects of smoking and ST use in Bangladesh has changed overtime with the country's acceleration of tobacco control efforts.

methodsData were analysed from the International Tobacco Control Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal study of users and non-users of tobacco (aged 15 and older) in Bangladesh, across four waves conducted in 2009 (n = 4378), 2010 (n = 4359), 2012 (n = 4223) and 2015 (n = 4242). Generalised estimating equations assessed the level of knowledge about harms of tobacco use across four waves. Multivariable logistic regressions assessed whether knowledge of health effects from cigarette smoking and ST use in 2015 differed by user group.

resultsIn 2015 survey, most tobacco users were aware that cigarette smoking causes stroke (92%), lung cancer (97%), pulmonary tuberculosis (97%) and ST use causes mouth cancer (97%) and difficulty in opening mouth (80%). There were significant increases in the total knowledge score of smoking related health harm from 2010 to 2012 (mean difference = 0.640; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.537, 0.742) and 2012 to 2015 (mean difference = 0.555; 95% CI 0.465, 0.645). Participants had greater odds of awareness for ST health effects from 2010 to 2015. DISCUSSION AND

conclusionsThe results suggest that increasing efforts of awareness policy interventions is having a positive effect on tobacco-related knowledge in Bangladesh. These policy initiatives should be continued to identify optimal methods to facilitate behaviour change and improve cessation of smoking and ST use.

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Cigarette SmokingTobacco, SmokelessBangladeshHumansLongitudinal StudiesPublic PolicySmokingTobacco ControlBangladeshcigarette smokinghealth effectsknowledgesmokeless tobacco

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