Providing a Clean Environment for Adolescents: Evaluation of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act in Taiwan

Chen, Minli; Chou, Li-Na; Zheng, Ya-Cheng

doi:10.3390/ijerph14060634

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“…Smoking not only damages the health of adolescents but also contributes to the environment in which air pollution occurs. The Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act in Taiwan stipulates that cigarettes may not be sold to people under the age of 18 [52]. This is almost similar to the research that showed that the cigarette filter is the most global and one of the main sources of marine pollution.…”

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Health Behavior of Adolescent Smokers During Covid-19 Pandemic

Helina

Jayaputra

Palutturi

2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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AIM: This research aims to determine the health behavior of adolescent smokers during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted simultaneously using the design of “t” and Chi-square test through the distribution of questionnaires to 135 respondents as well as descriptive design and case studies, respectively. The data were collected by 13 informants through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. RESULTS: The results showed that 5 out of the 6 indicators of the demographic characteristics were correlated to the economic pressure of the families of adolescent smokers which also correlates with their health behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSION: The increase in the price of cigarettes and family control are measures that regulate children from buying cigarettes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

Health Behavior of Adolescent Smokers During Covid-19 Pandemic

Helina

Jayaputra

Palutturi

2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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“…The concerns of Taiwanese people about e-cigarettes ( t 5 ) could be attributed to the emerging trend of adopting e-cigarettes by teenagers. After enacting the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act [ 90 ], the Taiwanese government now prohibits smoking in all workplaces and other public places, and requires warnings to appear prominently on cigarette packages that encourage people to stop smoking. However, the diffusion rates of e-cigarettes from middle school to high school students have increased rapidly.…”

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confidence: 99%

Using Social Media Mining and PLS-SEM to Examine the Causal Relationship between Public Environmental Concerns and Adaptation Strategies

Yang

Huang

Hsiao

2021

IJERPH

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With growing scientific evidence showing the harmful impact of air pollution on the environment and individuals’ health in modern societies, public concern about air pollution has become a central focus of the development of air pollution prevention policy. Past research has shown that social media is a useful tool for collecting data about public opinion and conducting analysis of air pollution. In contrast to statistical sampling based on survey approaches, data retrieved from social media can provide direct information about behavior and capture long-term data being generated by the public. However, there is a lack of studies on how to mine social media to gain valuable insights into the public’s pro-environmental behavior. Therefore, research is needed to integrate information retrieved from social media sites into an established theoretical framework on environmental behaviors. Thus, the aim of this paper is to construct a theoretical model by integrating social media mining into a value-belief-norm model of public concerns about air pollution. We propose a hybrid method that integrates text mining, topic modeling, hierarchical cluster analysis, and partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). We retrieved data regarding public concerns about air pollution from social media sites. We classified the topics using hierarchical cluster analysis and interpreted the results in terms of the value-belief-norm theoretical framework, which encompasses egoistic concerns, altruistic concerns, biospheric concerns, and adaptation strategies regarding air pollution. Then, we used PLS-SEM to confirm the causal relationships and the effects of mediation. An empirical study based on the concerns of Taiwanese social media users about air pollution was used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework in general and to examine gender differences in particular. Based on the results of the empirical studies, we confirmed the robust effects of egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric concerns of public impact on adaptation strategies. Additionally, we found that gender differences can moderate the causal relationship between egoistic concerns, altruistic concerns, and adaptation strategies. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of enhancing perceptions of air pollution and environmental sustainability by the public. The results of the analysis can serve as a basis for environmental policy and environmental education strategies.

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“…Existing research on adolescent smoking mainly focuses on medical health, smoking behaviors and attitudes, the impact of smoking on adolescents, and the complications of adolescent smoking [ 9 ]. Hanewinkel et al discovered the peculiarities of the relationship between tobacco marketing and youth smoking and verified that the exposure of adolescents to cigarette advertisements under high exposure is related to the occurrence of adolescent smoking [ 10 ].…”

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Health Informatics on Adolescents Smoking Based on the Miryoku Engineering Analysis Framework

Han

Wang

2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Smoking among young people has aroused widespread concern in society. The number of young people who smoke has increased year by year, which has largely affected their health. Therefore, how to improve the prevention and control rate of tobacco harm, thereby reducing the smoking rate of young people has become an important issue. Based on the glamour engineering research method that can specifically solve the problem of attractiveness between users and products, the user preference of young people’s smoking behavior is studied through the evaluation structure method and quantitative type I analysis, and the potential attractive factors are analyzed. Among them, there are 7 important attractive characteristics that affect the first attempt to smoke. These seven factors are divided into two aspects, namely, personal preference factors and environmental factors. The statistical data obtained through data analysis will be tested in the KMO field. The KMO values are 0.827 and 0.687, respectively, and the statistical results have obvious scores, so this study is effective. By quantifying one category, the partial correlation coefficients of different categories can be found, that is, specific solutions. This method provides a reference for ways and means to curb smoking behavior and also provides a case study for studying user perception. According to the research results, we seek ways to influence the smoking preferences of young people and then adopt some artificial methods to intervene in the generation of these factors, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing smoking among young people.

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Providing a Clean Environment for Adolescents: Evaluation of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act in Taiwan

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Health Behavior of Adolescent Smokers During Covid-19 Pandemic

Health Behavior of Adolescent Smokers During Covid-19 Pandemic

Using Social Media Mining and PLS-SEM to Examine the Causal Relationship between Public Environmental Concerns and Adaptation Strategies

Health Informatics on Adolescents Smoking Based on the Miryoku Engineering Analysis Framework

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