Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades: can continued globalization rectify that which it has wrought?

• Main Authors: Christine Linhart (Author), Take Naseri (Author), Sophia Lin (Author), Richard Taylor (Author), Stephen Morrell (Author), Stephen T McGarvey (Author), Dianna J Magliano (Author), Paul Zimmet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The island country of Samoa (population 188,000 in 2011) forms part of Polynesia in the South Pacific. Over the past several decades Samoa has experienced exceptional modernization and globalization of many sectors of society, with noncommunicable diseases (NCD) now the leading c...