RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
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Spot Survey 2007 |
Spot survey is the only trend monitoring survey of Alcohol and Tobacco prevalence which is widely recognized in Sri Lanka. The survey is conducted biannually (July and December), and is focused on six districts. The survey has been conducting since the year 1998.
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Tobacco Profile 2007 |
The Report's coverage remains comprehensive and it tries to give the reader a complete picture of the Sri
Lankan Tobacco profile.
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Parental Survey on Alcohol and Tobacco |
This survey was based on to determine the prevalence of smoking, alcohol and other drug use, To identify urban/rural differentials in tobacco/alcohol use and to determine the attitudes and beliefs related to alcohol/tobacco use among students.
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Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising 2007 |
The survey on alcohol and tobacco promotions on television was conducted every month since January 2007. This survey helps monitor, identify and analyze the prevailing trends and patterns related to alcohol and tobacco promotions in televisions
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Unveiling the tobacco industries stratergies |
This report investigates the ways which the industries try to retain their sales amidst the prevailing policy. However, even when comprehensive bans are imposed, the tobacco industry does constantly find other ways to promote their products.
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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ADIC NEWSLETTER |
Volume 1 : Issue 1: Jan - Feb 2009
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Alcohol and Other Drugs |
While some people become happy, others are sad; some become pleasant and others mean.. etc.The social convention of attributing this immense diversity of feelings and behavior to a single chemical is hardly ever questioned, yet this common wisdom about. The author is Consultant in Preventive Medicine. Department of Environment and Health, St Olavs pi. 5. Oslo. Norway. The present article is based on his book Alcohol and illicit drugs-myths and realities. published by the Alcohol and Drug Information Centre in Colombo. Sri Lanka in 1992.
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Psychological Effects of Alcohol |
The article is all about explaining psychological effects of Alcohol. Further it ellaborates Alcohol and Sex, Alcohol and inhibitance, whether its a magical drink... etc. The main topics of some were, about the influences as a community and how to mobilize influence, and also explains the Sri Lankan country situation.
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Reducing Alcohol problems |
For a country, the considerations are different. A country, unlike a community, is not easy to 'mobilise' to address alcohol problems. But there already are agencies empowered to deal with the whole country, which can therefore take the initiative to reduce a nation's alcohol problems. The article is about things that such agencies can do, to reduce alcohol problems in a country and what are the actions we could take.
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Removing the "MAGIC" from Drugs |
Following training courses, young people in Sri Lanka are demonstrating that the subjective influence of alcohol and other drugs, and the behavior they allegedly induce, can be changed by undermining widely held beliefs on their effects. Support is thus emerging for the view that the “magic” or pleasurable experience commonly ascribed to drugs have little to do with their chemical action.
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Reducing the Attractivness and image of Alcohol |
The article describes about Alcohol is a selling depressor, a dull chemical as a
pleasurable product.
Want to know how?
Alcohol is no mans invention. The fungi transforming carbohydrates
into alcohol exist in nature in most parts of the world. When
beverages containing carbohydrates are put aside for some time,
alcohol is produced as a natural adulterant. The theme involves the
greater understandings of
the larger forces that
operate in promoting
alcohol. This makes you to
understand why the alcohol
industry targets teens.
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Reducing the Attractivness and image of Tobacco |
The theme involves
the greater
understandings of
the larger forces
that operate in
promoting tobacco.
This makes you to understand why the
tobacco industry
targets teens. In Sri Lanka 30-50 (daily) deaths occur directly due to the
consumption of tobacco and yearly 15000 -20000 Sri Lankans
loose their valuable lives because of tobacco use. The tobacco
company faces massive challenges in replacing their customers lost
due to the tobacco related deaths and reaching out to multiply
their market segments.
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Tobacco Smuggling |
The issue of smuggled cigarettes entering the market and possible economic consequences have been discussed with regularity by the media in the recent past. As a result of this the KAMPANA Media Team decided to conduct a study of the situation.
In this study the significant points taken into consideration were, media reporting of the issue, police raids of smuggled cigarettes and the contribution made by the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) to this situation.
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