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  1. Second-hand smoke exposure from tobacco significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality worldwide. A cluster RCT in Bangladesh compared a community-based smoke-free home (SFH) intervention delivered in m...

    Authors: Cath Jackson, Zunayed Al Azdi, Ian Kellar, Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Caroline Fairhurst, Tarana Ferdous, Catherine Hewitt, Rumana Huque, Anna-Marie Marshall, Sean Semple, Aziz Sheikh and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1889
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. The editors of BMC Public Health would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 15 (2015).

    Authors: Natalie Pafitis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:189
    Content type: Reviewer Acknowledgement Published on:

  4. Deaths from second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure are increasing, but there is not sufficient evidence to recommend a particular SHS intervention or intervention development approach. Despite the available guidance...

    Authors: Ian Kellar, Zunayed Al Azdi, Cath Jackson, Rumana Huque, Noreen Dadirai Mdege and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:136
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  5. The current literature suggests that forming implementation intentions (simple ‘if-then’ plans) about how to refuse the offer of a cigarette may be an effective intervention to reduce smoking initiation in ado...

    Authors: Mark Conner, Sarah Grogan, Rebecca Lawton, Christopher Armitage, Robert West, Kamran Siddiqi, Brenda Gannon, Carole Torgerson, Keira Flett and Ruth Simms-Ellis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:54
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. Children are vulnerable to the effects of second-hand smoke exposure. Creating smoke-free homes is an effective strategy to limit exposure. We developed a smoke-free intervention (SFI) using children as a cata...

    Authors: Cath Jackson, Rumana Huque, Farid Ahmed, Shammi Nasreen, Sarwat Shah, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Mona Kanaan, Aziz Sheikh and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2021 7:112
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  7. Home exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is highly prevalent amongst pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries like India and Bangladesh. The literature on the efficacy of behaviour change intervention...

    Authors: Veena A. Satyanarayana, Cath Jackson, Kamran Siddiqi, Prabha S. Chandra, Rumana Huque, Mukesh Dherani, Shammi Nasreen, Pratima Murthy and Atif Rahman
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2021 7:74
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  8. Brief behavioural support can effectively help tuberculosis (TB) patients quit smoking and improve their outcomes. In collaboration with TB programmes in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, we evaluated the implem...

    Authors: Helen Elsey, Zunayed Al Azdi, Shophika Regmi, Sushil Baral, Razia Fatima, Fariza Fieroze, Rumana Huque, Jiban Karki, Dost Mohammad Khan, Amina Khan, Zohaib Khan, Jinshuo Li, Maryam Noor, Abriti Arjyal, Prabin Shrestha, Safat Ullah…
    Citation: Health Research Policy and Systems 2022 20:43
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. The impact of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on tuberculosis (TB), and the implications for TB and HIV control, is a public health challenge in Ghana – almost a quarter (23%) of all TB cases were HIV p...

    Authors: Gloria Akosua Ansa, John D Walley, Kamran Siddiqi and Xiaolin Wei
    Citation: Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2012 1:13
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  10. Smokeless tobacco (ST) is consumed by more than 300 million people worldwide. The distribution, determinants and health risks of ST differ from that of smoking; hence, there is a need to highlight its distinct...

    Authors: Kamran Siddiqi, Scheherazade Husain, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Anne Readshaw, Masuma Pervin Mishu and Aziz Sheikh
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:222
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure during pregnancy is associated with poor pregnancy and foetal outcomes. Theory-based behaviour change interventions (BCI) have been used successfully to change smoking related ...

    Authors: Mukesh Dherani, Syeda Nosheen Zehra, Cath Jackson, Veena Satyanaryana, Rumana Huque, Prabha Chandra, Atif Rahman and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:378
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. In the UK, 40% of Bangladeshi and 29% of Pakistani men smoke cigarettes regularly compared to the national average of 24%. As a consequence, second-hand smoking is also widespread in their households which is ...

    Authors: Hannah Ainsworth, Sarwat Shah, Faraz Ahmed, Amanda Amos, Ian Cameron, Caroline Fairhurst, Rebecca King, Ghazala Mir, Steve Parrott, Aziz Sheikh, David Torgerson, Heather Thomson and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Trials 2013 14:295
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. Smokeless tobacco is consumed in most countries in the world. In view of its widespread use and increasing awareness of the associated risks, there is a need for a detailed assessment of its impact on health. ...

    Authors: Kamran Siddiqi, Sarwat Shah, Syed Muslim Abbas, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Mohammed Jawad, Omara Dogar and Aziz Sheikh
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) in the antenatal and postnatal period is associated with a detrimental health impact to the foetus and newborn baby and is recognised as a preventable public health challenge...

    Authors: Rachel Mann, Heather Thomson, Becky Reynolds, Amanda Amos and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2016 2:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately impacted by interacting epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and tobacco consumption. Research indicates behavioural support delivered by health worker...

    Authors: Sahil Warsi, Helen Elsey, Melanie Boeckmann, Maryam Noor, Amina Khan, Deepa Barua, Shammi Nasreen, Samina Huque, Rumana Huque, Sudeepa Khanal, Prabin Shrestha, James Newell, Omara Dogar and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2019 19:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased among youth across the globe including in the US, and it continues as a common and traditional form of smoking tobacco in Pakistan. A range of behavioral and pharmacolog...

    Authors: Raana Zahid, Omara Dogar, Sonia Mansoor, Amina Khan, Mona Kanaan, Mohammed Jawad, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Trials 2017 18:14
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. By 2030, 80 % of the annual 8.3 million deaths attributable to tobacco will be in low-income countries (LICs). Yet, services to support people to quit tobacco are not part of routine primary care in LICs. This...

    Authors: Helen Elsey, Sudeepa Khanal, Shraddha Manandhar, Dilip Sah, Sushil Chandra Baral, Kamran Siddiqi and James Nicholas Newell
    Citation: Implementation Science 2016 11:104
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Smokeless tobacco (ST) is consumed globally by more than 350 million people, with approximately 85% of all users based in South and Southeast Asia. In this region, ST products are cheap and easily accessible. ...

    Authors: Faraz Siddiqui, Linda Bauld, Ray Croucher, Cath Jackson, Ian Kellar, Mona Kanaan, Subhash Pokhrel, Rumana Huque, Romaina Iqbal, Javaid Ahmed Khan, Ravi Mehrotra and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:189
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  19. South Africa is among the seven highest tuberculosis (TB) burden countries. Harmful lifestyle behaviours, such as smoking and alcohol, and poor adherence to medication can affect clinical outcomes. Modificatio...

    Authors: Andrew Stephen Moriarty, Goedele Maria Louwagie, Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Neo Morojele, John Tumbo, Olufemi Babatunde Omole, Max Oscar Bachmann, Mona Kanaan, Astrid Turner, Steve Parrott, Kamran Siddiqi and Olalekan Abdulwahab Ayo-Yusuf
    Citation: Trials 2019 20:457
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. Second-hand smoke (SHS) is a serious health hazard costing 890,000 lives a year globally. Women and children in many economically developing countries are worst affected as smoke-free laws are only partially i...

    Authors: Noreen Mdege, Caroline Fairhurst, Tarana Ferdous, Catherine Hewitt, Rumana Huque, Cath Jackson, Ian Kellar, Steve Parrott, Sean Semple, Aziz Sheikh, Shilpi Swami and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Trials 2019 20:11
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