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    Prevalence of menthol cigarette use among adults who smoke from the United States by census division and demographic subgroup, 2002–2020: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) project

    Targeted marketing of menthol cigarettes in the US influences disparities in the prevalence of menthol smoking. There has been no analysis of sub-national data documenting differences in use across demographic...

    Pete Driezen, Shannon Gravely, Karin A. Kasza in Population Health Metrics (2024)

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    Distribution of legal retail cannabis stores in Canada by neighbourhood deprivation

    In legal cannabis markets, the distribution of retail stores has the potential to influence transitions from illegal to legal sources as well as consumer patterns of use. The current study examined the distrib...

    Fathima Fataar, Pete Driezen, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah in Journal of Cannabis Research (2024)

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    Associations of Cannabis Use, High-Risk Alcohol Use, and Depressive Symptomology with Motivation and Attempts to Quit Cigarette Smoking Among Adults: Findings from the 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Va** Survey

    This study assessed independent and interaction effects of the frequency of cannabis use, high-risk alcohol use, and depressive symptomology on motivation and attempts to quit cigarette smoking among adults wh...

    Shannon Gravely, Pete Driezen, Lion Shahab in International Journal of Mental Health and… (2023)

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    An examination of the effectiveness of health warning labels on smokeless tobacco products in four states in India: findings from the TCP India cohort survey

    In 2009, after many delays and changes, India introduced a single pictorial health warning label (HWL) on smokeless tobacco (SLT) packing—a symbolic image of a scorpion covering 40% of the front surface. In 20...

    Shannon Gravely, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen, Steve Xu in BMC Public Health (2016)

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    Determinants of intentions to quit smoking among adult smokers in Bangladesh: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh wave 2 survey

    With about 22 million adult smokers, Bangladesh needs strong measures that would promote smoking cessation. Using data from Wave 2 of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Survey, this study examined the fac...

    Pete Driezen, Abu S. Abdullah, Anne C. K. Quah in Global Health Research and Policy (2016)

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    Predictors of smoking cessation behavior among Bangladeshi adults: findings from ITC Bangladesh survey

    Research findings on the predictors of smoking cessation behavior identified in Western countries may not be generalizable to smokers in the Southeast Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh). This study examined th...

    Abu S. Abdullah, Pete Driezen, Anne C. K. Quah, Nigar Nargis in Tobacco Induced Diseases (2015)

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    The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey

    Stop smoking medications significantly increase the likelihood of smoking cessation. However, there are no population-based studies of stop-smoking medication use in China, the largest tobacco market in the wo...

    Jilan Yang, David Hammond, Pete Driezen, Richard J O'Connor, Qiang Li in BMC Public Health (2011)