Gary Giovino, chair of UB's Department of Community Health and
Health Behavior, was interviewed on PBS Newshour about his new
study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, that
revealed that the use of tobacco in developing countries is
booming. The report, which was heard nationwide on public radio
stations, looked at tobacco users in 14 developing nations and
included data from the U.S. and U.K. for comparison. Giovino's
groundbreaking study also was the reported on in articles in The
New York Times.
Read more:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/globalhealth/july-dec12/smoking_08-20.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/health/high-smoking-rates-persist-in-poor-and-middle-income-nations.html?_r=1&ref=health
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