Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the Nicotiana genus and the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used around the world. Tobacco contains the highly addictive stimulant alkaloid nicotine as well as harmala alkaloids. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking in cigarettes and cigars, as well as pipes and shishas. They can also be consumed as snuff, chewing …

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WRAP: Wrap (United Kingdom) · 27 March 2024 English

In 2021, WRAP unveiled the inaugural UK Food System GHG Emissions report, offering an unprecedented overview of emissions from 2015-2019, identifying critical emission 'hotspots,' and delineating urgent areas for action …

and autogeneration by the food, beverages and tobacco industry across a variety of fuel types. From ECUK ECUK, the energy use specifically by the tobacco industry can be isolated. The latest available data of final consumption and autogeneration, with tobacco industry use subtracted. The energy use by fuel


Cato Institute · 21 March 2024 English

The United States has a worsening shortage of primary care clinicians.1 The shortage is more severe in rural areas and medically underserved urban communities but is extending to communities throughout …

States have also allowed pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation and HIV prophylaxis treatments as discussed setting/agreement For minor ailments/conditions For smoking/tobacco cessation In an emergency Adapt/manage1,3 Can make Twenty-one states allow pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation products, as shown in Figure 3. Depending access tobacco cessation aids from pharmacists Figure 3 Sources: “Pharmacist Prescribing: Tobacco Cessation counter. Pharmacists not allowed to prescribe tobacco cessation aids Pharmacists given prescribing authority


World Bank Group · 20 March 2024 English

This technical note aims to provide a brief update on the health financing situation in Lao PDR and to identify critical constraints and opportunities facing the health financing system in …

purposes. Health excise taxes, especially on tobacco products and alcohol, could provide health and PDR. Mortality and morbidity in Lao PDR due to tobacco and alcohol use and diets high in sugar- sweetened specific component, this component is ignored by the tobacco industry, which limits revenue collection. Therefore is significant scope to raise tax revenue from tobacco and alcohol in Lao PDR. Grant financing will viable option. Health excise taxes especially on tobacco products and alcohol, could provide health and


Public Health Law Center · 20 March 2024 English

This publication documents the intertwined paths of the tobacco and gas misinformation campaigns, and the similar health detriments of their products, concluding with ways state and local governments and the parallels between methane gas and commercial tobacco, including surprising similarities between the pollutants released by both gas stoves and tobacco, the similarities of health harms from secondhand regulation. While the public is familiar with the health dangers of tobacco and the long and sordid history to mask these dangers by the tobacco industry, we are just starting to become aware of the full range

COOKING WITH SMOKE: HOW THE GAS INDUSTRY USED TOBACCO TACTICS TO COVER UP HARMS FROM GAS STOVES 2 www CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 HEALTH HARMS FROM BURNING TOBACCO AND GAS 4 The Harms 4 What Health Associations we have developed a deep understanding of the tobacco industry’s history of intentionally misleading parallels between methane gas and commercial tobacco, including surprising similarities between the the pollutants released by both gas stoves and tobacco, the similarities of health harms from secondhand


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 20 March 2024 English

The Indonesian authorities are exploring options for the establishment of subnational government endowment funds and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has drafted regulations in that context. However, the motivations and …

from taxes (income tax, property tax, excises on tobacco) and natural resources revenue (including oil


The Australia Institute · 19 March 2024 English

Compelling evidence of the non- importance of minimum wages to inflation is provided by the experience of the last year: the national minimum wage was boosted by 8.65%, the most …

2023”. Non-discretionary calculation excludes tobacco. 2 https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/real


World Bank Group · 19 March 2024 English

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County Health Rankings and Roadmaps · 18 March 2024 English

2024 Select measures and data sources Measure Weight Source Years of Data HEALTH OUTCOMES Length of Life Premature Death* 50% National Center for Health Statistics - Natality and Mortality 2019-2021 …

Files 2016-2022 HEALTH FACTORS HEALTH BEHAVIORS Tobacco Use Adult Smoking+ 10% Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance


The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment · 18 March 2024 English

This study assesses the relevance of various jurisdictions’ CPI implementation experiences for designing Taiwan’s carbon fee in terms of i) the similarity of the economic structure of other jurisdictions to …

and 111.34 15,876 7.01 0.47 5.72% 11.34% 3.1% tobacco products Textiles 92.37 93,743 0.99 14.64 38.00%


County Health Rankings and Roadmaps · 18 March 2024 English

The centroid of each cluster is then moved to the average of the data in the cluster and the process is repeated until no data points change groups. [...] The …

Poor Mental Health Days Low Birthweight Health Tobacco Use 10% Adult Smoking Behaviors Diet and Exercise Files 2016-2022 HEALTH FACTORS HEALTH BEHAVIORS Tobacco Use Adult Smoking+ 10% Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance


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