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Willingness of tobacco smokers to contribute financially towards cessation resources : correspondence

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Exposure to tobacco smoke accounts for approximately 9% (95% confidence interval 8.1 - 10.2) of all South African (SA) deaths. Seventeen percent of SA adults are self-reported active smokers and an alarming 32% of pregnant women were found to be active smokers on urine cotinine testing. Despite the publication in 2013 of the South African Tobacco Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline, tobacco smoking cessation programmes in the public health sector remain scarce.

Source: South African Medical Journal

DOI: 10.7196/samj.2016.v106i12.12106

Authors: Karthik Rao, Amy L. Slogrove, Mark F. Cotton, Margaret Cooke

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $311