The knowledge hub is one-window access to all the data, research, and information on the tobacco use and efforts to control it in Pakistan and EMR. It provides a complete picture of the emerging alternative products in Pakistan and EMR. Evidence-based interventions can lead to legal, policy and administrative initiatives to end smoking. This hub collates the relevant knowledge from around the world to contribute to the aim of making our future smoke free.
Imagine we'd found a way to get millions of people to switch from alcohol, which in this country kills 10,000 people a year, to another kind of substance: still addictive, still not risk-free, but when compared with the booze, pretty harmless. Coffee, say. A public health miracle is hailed. Liver units are empty. Heart surgeons spend more time on the golf course, and costly government prevention programmes close. Millions chink into NHS coffers.
Rationale: While tobacco industry data suggests that switching from combustible cigarettes to heated tobacco products (HTPs), like IQOS, may reduce the users' exposure to respiratory toxicants, it is not known if using HTPs impacts the outcomes of acute respiratory infections.
How nicotine acts on developing neurocircuitry in adolescence to promote later addiction vulnerability remains largely unknown, but may hold the key for informing more effective intervention efforts.
Vaping use has skyrocketed especially among young adults, however there is no consensus on how vaping impacts the lungs. We aimed to determine whether there were changes in lung function acutely after a standard vaping session or if there were differences in lung function metrics between a healthy never-vaping cohort
Introduction: Restrictive e-cigarette policies have not allowed for the characterization of the sale of these tobacco products in the countries where they are implemented. This is because it is believed that there are no stores. However, the use of e-cigarettes persists in these countries.
| Population (Millions) | 28.5 |
| Male(% of Total Pop) | 50.4 |
| Female(% of Total Pop) | 49.6 |
| Pop Growth (Annual %) | 2.4 |
| Year | 2018 |
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| Population (Millions) | 41.8 |
| Male(% of Total Pop) | 50.0 |
| Female(% of Total Pop) | 50.0 |
| Pop Growth (Annual %) | 2.4 |
| Year | 2018 |
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| Population (Millions) | 1.0 |
| Male(% of Total Pop) | 52.6 |
| Female(% of Total Pop) | 47.4 |
| Pop Growth (Annual %) | 1.6 |
| Year | 2018 |
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