While our findings in many ways align with the global literature on adolescent tobacco use, including associations between age and social exposure [36], here we present a more nuanced picture of the specific influencing factors behind those trends in Ghana related to social influences on perceptions, environmental opportunity factors, and personal decision-making factors
Joelle Lester, director of Commercial Tobacco Control Programs at Mitchell Hamline School of Laws Public Health Law Center, said that while e-cigarette companies have argued the potential for their products as a harm reduction strategy or cessation strategy, they havent demonstrated it to the FDA. We dont have to wonder about the harm for youth initiation or the role that menthol plays, because we know a lot about that already, Lester said
Roughly a third of the plans total food aid $2 billion of the $13 billion plan for European reconstruction went to the procurement of tobacco, she writes
1 With the increasing popularity of e-cigarettes, the landscape of tobacco use among our youth has changed in the eight years since our original article