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Strategies for an effective tobacco harm reduction policy in Indonesia: Fariz Nurwidya, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Hario Baskoro, Moulid Hidayat, Faisal Yunus, Kazuhisa Takahashi; Epidemiol Health. 2014;36:e2014035. Published online December 10, 2014; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2014035

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Tobacco consumption is a major causative agent for various deadly diseases such as coronary artery disease and cancer. It is the largest avoidable health risk in the world, causing more problems than alcohol, drug use, high blood pressure, excess body weight or high cholesterol. As countries like Indonesia prepare to develop national policy guidelines for tobacco harm reduction, the scientific community can help by providing continuous ideas and a forum for sharing and distributing information, drafting guidelines, reviewing best practices, raising funds, and establishing partnerships. We propose several strategies for reducing tobacco consumption, including advertisement interference, cigarette pricing policy, adolescent smoking prevention policy, support for smoking cessation therapy, special informed consent for smokers, smoking prohibition in public spaces, career incentives, economic incentives, and advertisement incentives. We hope that these strategies would assist people to avoid starting smoking or in smoking cessation.

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Factors Affecting Secondhand Smoke Avoidance Behavior of Vietnamese Adolescents
Ja-yin Lee, Hyunmi Ahn, Hyeonkyeong Lee
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.2018; 15(8): 1632. CrossRef

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