Comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising and promotion were introduced through tobacco control legislation in Viet Nam, but it has been established that violations of the bans are very ...

Two years after implementation of the graphic health warning intervention in Vietnam, it is very important to evaluate the intervention's potential impact. The objective of this paper was ...

Printing of pictorial health warnings (PHWs) on cigarette packages became obligatory by the Vietnam Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harm in May 2013. Literature from high-income ...

Graphic health warnings (GHW) on tobacco packages have proven to be effective in increasing quit attempts among smokers and reducing initial smoking among adolescents. This research aimed ...

Efforts to reduce tobacco use among school children need to be based on understanding of access to cigarettesby these subjects because previous studies indicated that enforcement of laws for controlling tobacco sales ...

Smoking and harmful drinking dramatically increase health risks but little is known about their co-occurrence and factors that influence this co-habit, limiting development and implementation ...

Second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure at home, especially among children, is a serious issue in VietNam. During the past decade, much effort has been taken for tobacco control in the country, including various

Background: In 2013, legislation in Vietnam regulated smoking in public areas. Included was a ban on ...

Evidence shows that tobacco advertising and promotion activities may increase tobacco consumption andusage, especially in youth. Despite the regulation on prohibiting advertisement of any tobacco product, tobacco

Studies have shown that smoking is a learnt behavior, often initiated during adolescence. This paper aimsto describe tobacco-related knowledge, attitude and associations among school adolescents aged 13-15 with

Scientific evidence on all aspects of smoking amongst youth is very important for designing appropriateinterventions to reduce smoking among this vulnerable population. This paper describes current access to ...

In Vietnam, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) took effect in March2005 while MPOWER has been implemented since 2008. This paper describes the progress and challenges ofimplementation ...

The aim of this paper is to report the rate of current and ever cigarette smoking and explore correlates ofcurrent cigarette smoking among adolescents aged 13-15 in Viet Nam. This analysis was derived from GYTS

Viet Nam is a country with the highest rate of adult male smokers in the world. In 2010, the percentageof adult male smokers was 47.4%. Each year in Viet Nam, there are 40,000 lives lost from tobacco-related