Monitoring Caribbean tobacco use: baseline adolescent smoking prevalence and regional disparities

• Main Authors: Ian R Hambleton (Author), Selvi M Jeyaseelan (Author), Christina Howitt (Author), Anselm J Hennis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. To provide baseline information on tobacco use among adolescents in the Caribbean for the period before country-level implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC). Materials and methods. Using Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS) between 2000 and 2008, we report...