Stella Aguinaga Bialou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1747586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Aguinaga Bialou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella Aguinaga |
| FAMILY NAME | Bialou |
| SIGNATURE | BIALOU S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6471-5457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tobacco cessation prescription rates among Veterans living with human immunodeficiency virus who smoke
Introduction: Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, with prevalence remaining dangerously high in at-risk groups, including people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Military Veterans with HIV and receiving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) care have a high prevalence of smoking, and risk factors such as hazardous drinking and substance use disorder (SUD), despite access to smoking …
Utilisation of waterpipe tobacco imagery in cigarette advertising
ATC and RJR used cultural imagery related to waterpipe tobacco and hookah to promote cigarettes. Understanding these methods can help address contemporary tobacco product advertising practices using cultural artefacts
Taat hemp cigarettes’ unsubstantiated cessation and harm reduction claims
TAAT's website contains hundreds of unsubstantiated harm reduction and therapeutic claims. While TAAT hemp cigarettes have evaded FDA regulations that apply to tobacco and drug products, the FDA can enforce laws prohibiting TAAT from making unauthorised therapeutic claims for unapproved products and the Federal Trade Commission can take action for deceptive health claims. States and localities can also prohibit TAAT from marketing cigarettes with…
Tobacco industry efforts to harness the voice and influence of community organisations
The Tobacco Institute used tactics identified in previous research on third-party industry allies to build a partnership with LULAC. Tobacco companies use similar practices in the 21st century. Our findings suggest a need for transparency regarding industry funding of community organisations given its potential to influence them in ways that promote health harms
Cultural and Language Discrimination in Healthcare as Experienced by Basque Women and Gender Non-Normative Individuals in the Basque Country
Basque women and gender non-normative individuals are a part of an Indigenous and ethnic minority culture, thus more likely to be exposed to discrimination and sub-optimal healthcare services. This study explores their experiences with healthcare and identifies the barriers and facilitators to implement culturally safe healthcare practices in the Basque Country. We used a critical ethnographic approach to conduct 37 semi-structured interviews, 36…
Perceptions of social media harms and potential management strategies
There was consensus among participants that e-cigarette related social media content can be harmful and government action is urgently needed. There was an identified need for the development of government led national-level regulatory frameworks, with government led appropriate legislation; identification of an organisation or organisations with suitable levels of regulatory power and resources to monitor, enforce and penalise noncompliant social…
Global landscape of nicotine and tobacco products additives policies
The data demonstrate various global policies addressing additives and/or flavours and a range of definitions of additives and flavours. Establishing common definitions and standards could facilitate cooperation between countries and regions
Tobacco policy (in)coherence in Mozambique
Mozambique ranks fifth on the list of tobacco producing countries in Africa, while also being a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Tobacco farming is regarded by some governments as a strategic economic commodity for export and remains deeply entrenched within Mozambique’s political and economic landscape. This study uses a qualitative description methodology to identify tensions, conflicts and alignment or misalignm…
Gendering the Political Economy of Smallholder Agriculture
Gender plays a prominent role in shaping the practices and experiences of smallholding farming households. This scoping review seeks to chart and analyze how gender is used in the existing literature on the political economy of smallholder agriculture. The aim of this review is to first identify the extent to which gender is addressed as a unit of analysis in this body of literature, and second, to identify when and how gender is incorporated in …
Promotion of E-Cigarettes on TikTok and Regulatory Considerations
E-cigarettes are promoted extensively on TikTok and other social media platforms. Platform policies to restrict e-cigarette promotion seem insufficient and are poorly enforced. This paper aims to understand how e-cigarettes are being promoted on TikTok and provide insights into the effectiveness of current TikTok policies. Seven popular hashtag-based keywords were used to identify TikTok accounts and associated videos related to e-cigarettes. Pos…
Foregrounding women and household dynamics to inform Article 17
Women hold agency within tobacco-growing households and participate in decision-making processes regarding tobacco agriculture. Women should be included in future tobacco control policies and programmes pertaining to Article 17
Cannabis industry campaign expenditures in Colorado, 2005-2021
BACKGROUND: The cannabis industry has been described using the commercial determinants of health framework because it seeks to increase sales and profits through efforts to change the political environment. To increase understanding of these cannabis industry's efforts, this study describes cannabis industry campaign contributions in Colorado through an analysis of public records. METHODS: We reviewed datasets posted online at the Colorado Secret…
Clearing cannabis criminal records
Mental Health Care Access Among Arab Immigrants in the United States
Arab immigrants constitute a sizable portion of the US population, and their adjustment and relocation challenges might escalate mental health issues. Nevertheless, mental health care accessibility among such populations is not recognized as policy issue. Hence, it is crucial to explore the political tools that might be employed to improve immigrants' access to mental health treatment. The Public Arenas Model (Hilgartner and Bosk, American Journa…
Does a human rights-based approach to harm reduction support commercialized harm reduction? Brief research
In recent years, the tobacco industry has been pushing a narrative that their newer lines of products—including electronic nicotine delivery devices—are offered in part to meet a social responsibility of providing potentially reduced-harm choices to their consumers. While some of the newer tobacco products might potentially be less harmful than combustible tobacco products, there is also significant deviation from the very concept of harm reducti…
Firm foundation or neglected cornerstone? The paradox of Article 5.3 implementation and the challenge of strengthening tobacco control governance
Using MPOWER policies to address tobacco impact on the environment
Overcoming tobacco industry opposition to standardized packaging in the Americas
Countries in the Region of the Americas have been slow to adopt standardized packaging of tobacco products. The objectives of this analysis are to report on the progress made in adopting such packaging in countries in the Region, review known tobacco industry strategies for opposing these policies and discuss the resources available to academics, advocates and policy-makers who might be interested in advancing the use of standardized packaging in…
Moving forward in the Americas
Seguir avanzando en las Américas
Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training
There are few educational programs in the United States that have a primary focus on preparing nurses to engage in all levels of public health, health policy, and climate change. The United Nations sustainability development goals (SDG) and the Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021) report underscored the importance of key stakeholders, including nurses, engaging in advocacy and policy to promote health equit…
Saúde sem filtro
As doenças relacionadas ao tabaco matam oito milhões de pessoas anualmente no mundo e, no Brasil, são responsáveis por milhares de casos de cânceres, doenças cardiovasculares e outras enfermidades. Os filtros nos cigarros são percebidos como uma tecnologia que reduziria os danos à saúde. O objetivo deste artigo é descrever a tecnologia dos filtros, seu histórico, seus impactos e discutir formas de regulação. Foi feita uma busca na literatura para…
An Overview of the Policy and Market Landscape of Tobacco Production and Control in Mozambique
Background: Tobacco growing has been considered a mainstay of Mozambique's economy, but there is a dearth of analysis of the tobacco policy landscape in the country. Methods: Review of government and non-government documents and academic papers addressing Mozambique's tobacco-growing history, the changes in the political economy of tobacco, and health policies addressing tobacco use and prevention of noncommunicable diseases. Results: Despite its…
Assessing the links between human rights and global tobacco control through statements made on global fora
Globally, HR is just emerging as an influence in global health governance for tobacco discussions. Within the Western Pacific Region however tobacco control is seen by some authorities as a HR issue. Similarly, to HR experts, tobacco control is becoming important to how Pacific Island Countries fulfill their treaty obligations, suggesting tobacco control advocates might explore these mechanisms to further influence the development of strong tobac…
Is the tobacco industry’s human rights makeover growing bolder
The tobacco industry lacks serious commitment to human rights,1 2 including its exploitation of civil rights efforts to curry favour with groups that experience tobacco-related health disparities.3 British American Tobacco (BAT)’s Journey to a Better Tomorrow: Human Rights Report 2020 ,4 published on Human Rights Day (10 December 2020), presents another window into the industry’s misuse of human rights framework. It is the first large-scale repor…
Junking Science to Promote Tobacco
Despite the tobacco industry's claims that it has changed its practices, the toll of tobacco-related disease and death continues to grow worldwide, and the industry continues to use a vast array of strategies to promote its products and increase profits. This commentary discusses the ways the tobacco industry has created controversy about risk assessment and about the scientific evidence of the health hazards of secondhand smoke. The authors reco…
Analysis of the tobacco industry's interference in the enforcement of health warnings on tobacco products in Brazil
This article aims to analyze the relationship between the Brazilian government's adoption of a regulatory measure with a strong impact on the population and the opposition by invested interest groups. The methodology involves the analysis of official documents on the enforcement of health warnings on tobacco products sold in Brazil. In parallel, a search was conducted for publicly available tobacco industry documents resulting from lawsuits, with…
Observatório sobre as Estratégias da Indústria do Tabaco
No sentido de conter o avanço da epidemia do tabaco, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) vem trabalhando para que os seus Estados-membros se tornem partes legalmente vinculantes da Convenção Quadro para o Controle do Tabaco da Organização Mundial da Saúde (CQCT-OMS), que é o primeiro tratado internacional sobre saúde negociado sob os auspícios da OMS 1, em vigor desde 2005. Atualmente, 179 países e a União Europeia são Estados-membros desse trat…
Yach and Bialous Respond
Our commentary is based on facts supported by the evidence cited, not on “innuendo and guilt by association” or “ad hominem attack.” The individuals and organizations mentioned are merely representative of the web of front groups and alliances created by the tobacco industry in its continuing attempts to dismiss the overwhelming scientific evidence linking secondhand smoke with death and disease. ILSI's current membership roster lists Kraft Foods…
Philip Morris' new scientific initiative
In the fall of 2000, Philip Morris re-initiated an external research grants programme ("Philip Morris External Research Program", or PMERP), the first since the dissolution of the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) and the Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR). The ostensible purpose of the programme is to help develop cigarette designs "that might reduce the health risk of smoking". Internal company documents also indicate that Philip Morris urg…
Second hand smoke and risk assessment
The tobacco industry developed a well coordinated, multi-pronged strategy to create doubt about research on exposure to SHS by trying to link it to the broader discussion of risk assessment of low doses of a number of toxins whose disease burden may still be a matter of scientific debate, thus trying to make SHS their equivalent; and by attempting, through third party organisations and persons, to impugn the agencies using risk assessment to esta…
Whose standard is it, anyway? How the tobacco industry determines the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for tobacco and tobacco products
ISO's tobacco and tobacco products standards are not adequate to guide tobacco products regulatory policies, and no health claims can be made based on ISO's tobacco products standards. There is an urgent need for tobacco control advocates and groups worldwide to be more involved with the work of the ISO, both directly and through their national standardisation organisations
Junking Science to Promote Tobacco
Despite the tobacco industry's claims that it has changed its practices, the toll of tobacco-related disease and death continues to grow worldwide, and the industry continues to use a vast array of strategies to promote its products and increase profits. This commentary discusses the ways the tobacco industry has created controversy about risk assessment and about the scientific evidence of the health hazards of secondhand smoke. The authors reco…
Usa
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is an international organisation of more than 55 000 members with chapters throughout the world. ASHRAE develops standards that “set uniform methods of testing and rating equipment and establish accepted practices for the HVAC&R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration) industry worldwide, such as the design of energy efficient buildings” (www.…
Tobacco industry manipulation of the hospitality industry to maintain smoking in public places
Through the myth of lost profits, the tobacco industry has fooled the hospitality industry into embracing expensive ventilation equipment, while in reality 100% smoke-free laws have been shown to have no effect on business revenues, or even to improve them. The tobacco industry has effectively turned the hospitality industry into its de facto lobbying arm on clean indoor air. Public health advocates need to understand that, with rare exceptions, …
Yach and Bialous Respond
Our commentary is based on facts supported by the evidence cited, not on “innuendo and guilt by association” or “ad hominem attack.” The individuals and organizations mentioned are merely representative of the web of front groups and alliances created by the tobacco industry in its continuing attempts to dismiss the overwhelming scientific evidence linking secondhand smoke with death and disease. ILSI's current membership roster lists Kraft Foods…
The Philip Morris External Research Program
PMERP appears to exist less as a conduit for critical scientific inquiry than to fit into a corporate strategy intended to burnish PM's public image
Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on health-related quality of life in women in the Nurses’ Health Study
A resposta da indústria do tabaco à criação de espaços livres de fumo no Brasil
It is essential that Brazil recognize the damage caused by smoking and revise its federal law regulating smoking in closed environments. The knowledge concerning the strategies employed by the industry may be useful for politicians and health care professionals to prepare arguments opposing measures that can be detrimental to public health
A brief overview of the tobacco industry in the last 20 years
Since the launch of Tobacco Control 20 years ago, there have been several changes in the tobacco industry worldwide. The goal of this commentary is to present some of the keys changes of the past two decades. This time is marked by mergers and acquisitions that led to the existence, today, of four major transnational tobacco companies: Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco. The possible role of …
Feasibility study of a smoking cessation intervention in Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course tuberculosis treatment clinics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A pilot feasibility study was conducted to determine whether Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course (DOTS) workers could be trained to deliver smoking cessation counseling and referral interventions, identify potential barriers to a full-scale randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of integrated smoking cessation in DOTS, and determine whether tuberculosis (TB) patients who smoke would agree to participate in such a program. DOTS provid…
Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries
United Nations Global Compact
Excluding tobacco manufacturers from UNGC participation is an important step to limit the tobacco industry's ability to influence the UN and promote its image and, by extension, its deadly products. It is important to monitor enforcement of this policy and resist the engagement of tobacco industry front groups, such as industry-funded foundations, with the UNGC
A conceituação das ameaças ao controle do tabaco provenientes de acordos econômicos internacionais
Com base nos resultados de dezenas de entrevistas com atores-chave envolvidos na formulação de políticas de controle do tabaco, examinamos as percepções desses atores em relação a ameaças ao controle do tabaco provenientes de políticas econômicas internacionais (comerciais e de investimento). Adotando uma perspectiva jurídica, avaliamos também as ameaças existentes e desafios potenciais que as políticas econômicas podem apresentar para os esforço…
Analysis of the tobacco industry's interference in the enforcement of health warnings on tobacco products in Brazil
This article aims to analyze the relationship between the Brazilian government's adoption of a regulatory measure with a strong impact on the population and the opposition by invested interest groups. The methodology involves the analysis of official documents on the enforcement of health warnings on tobacco products sold in Brazil. In parallel, a search was conducted for publicly available tobacco industry documents resulting from lawsuits, with…
Observatório sobre as Estratégias da Indústria do Tabaco
No sentido de conter o avanço da epidemia do tabaco, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) vem trabalhando para que os seus Estados-membros se tornem partes legalmente vinculantes da Convenção Quadro para o Controle do Tabaco da Organização Mundial da Saúde (CQCT-OMS), que é o primeiro tratado internacional sobre saúde negociado sob os auspícios da OMS 1, em vigor desde 2005. Atualmente, 179 países e a União Europeia são Estados-membros desse trat…
As instituições e a implementação do controle do tabaco no Brasil
Esta pesquisa examina as características institucionais da Comissão Nacional para a Implementação da Convenção-Quadro sobre Controle do Tabaco (CONICQ) e como essas características institucionais facilitaram e impediram sua capacidade de promover o controle intersetorial do tabagismo. Os autores avaliam particularmente as características da CONICQ enquanto um dos principais fatores de mudanças e melhorias nas primeiras políticas de controle do ta…
Advancing progressive health policy to reduce NCDs amidst international commercial opposition
This study examines how health advocates and the Australian government responded to international commercial pressure during the implementation of tobacco standardised packaging (SP) as a measure to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Relevant government and NGO documents, and media items were reviewed. Policymakers and health advocates (n = 19) in Australia were interviewed. In 2009, Australia's National Health Taskforce recommended SP, whi…
Containing diffusion
Governments seeking to implement SP need to be prepared to resist and counter the industry's multipronged trade strategy by avoiding trade diversions, exposing false industry legal and reputational claims, and monitoring third-party support
Heated tobacco products
There has been a global decline in tobacco consumption that, if continued, will negatively impact the tobacco industry's profits. This decline led the industry to invent and market new products, including heated tobacco products (HTP). HTP are an extension of the industry's strategies to undermine government's tobacco regulatory efforts as they are being promoted as part of the solution for the tobacco epidemic. Under the moniker of 'harm reducti…
Role of stakeholders in Nigeria’s tobacco control journey after the FCTC
The Policy Dystopia Model and WHO categories of industry interference provide a helpful framework for understanding tobacco control debates in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) as in high-income countries. One difference in LMIC is the important role of international tobacco control advocates in supporting national tobacco control advocates. This partnership is important in pushing for FCTC-compliant legislation and countering industry activiti…
The Challenges of Monitoring Illicit Trade Should Not Obscure the Success of Tobacco Tax Policy
AffiliationsStella A. Bialous is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco. Stanton A. Glantz is with the Department of Medicine, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
Memoranda of understanding
Governments should reject TTC partnerships through MoUs and instead ratify and implement the FCTC and the Protocol to effectively address illicit trade in tobacco products
Tobacco control in Nepal during a time of government turmoil (1960–2006)
Political instability, conflict, weak governance and the dictatorship significantly affect tobacco control activities in low-income and middle-income countries. Nepal shows that tobacco control advocates can take advantage of global events, such as WNTD, and use domestic litigation to maintain support from civil societies and to advocate for stronger tobacco control policies
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