Samira Asma

TL;DR: The first wave of GATS showed high rates ofsmoking in men, early initiation of smoking in women, and low quit ratios, reinforcing the view that efforts to prevent initiation and promote cessation of tobacco use are needed to reduce associated morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: The Commission has identified ten essential and achievable goals and ten accompanying, mutually additive, and synergistic key actions that—if implemented effectively and broadly—will make substantial contributions to the management of blood pressure globally.

TL;DR: The difference in current cigarette smoking between boys and girls is narrower than expected in many regions of the world and use of tobacco products other than cigarettes by students is as high as cigarette smoking as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Low levels of tobacco consumption will require a redoubling of efforts to prevent initiation and promote cessation among the large proportion of young people who currently use tobacco, which is troubling for the future of chronic disease and tobacco-related mortality.

TL;DR: The findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) suggest that the estimate of a doubling of deaths from smoking might be an underestimate because of the increase in smoking among young girls compared with adult females, the high susceptibility of smoking among never smokers, high levels of exposure to secondhand smoke, and protobacco indirect advertising.