Overall, tobacco is responsible for 11 per cent of all non-communicable diseases and three per cent of communicable deaths in Jamaica
They are all equally effective, and even more so when the transdermal patch is used with another NRT, especially when the treatment is taken beyond 12 weeks
Ao Ieong said that the government would continue to study the feasibility of raising the tobacco tax, but with the current economic downturn, the government was concerned that increasing taxes would further increase pressure on consumption
Ethics declarations Conflict of interest Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi previously received funding through the Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship and the Kevin Molloy Fellowship, both awarded by Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC) UK, an independent public health organization dedicated to advancing the science of tobacco harm reduction
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