Dr. Michele Bloch Ph.D. This is Me

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1. 1. www.indiasnews.com

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   Published on: 2/29/2008   Last Visited: 2/29/2008

   Our results demonstrate that pregnant women's tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke threaten to impede or reverse ongoing efforts to improve maternal and child health in the developing world," said lead author Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D., of NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch.

2. 2. www.financialexpress.com

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   "Pregnant women's tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke threaten to impede or reverse ongoing efforts to improve maternal and child health in the developing world," said Dr. Michele Bloch of the National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Control Research Branch, whose study appears in the American Journal of Public Health.
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   Bloch said these trends represent a major shift among women in developing countries, where historically about 9 percent of women used tobacco, due in part to strong cultural taboos.
   
   Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death among women in developed countries, and Bloch said the findings offer a chance to intervene before women in the developing world match that grim statistic.
   
   Smoking "epidemic"
   
   "Latin America is where the epidemic of cigarette smoking is most advanced, particularly in Uruguay, where 78 percent of all pregnant women said they had ever tried a cigarette," Bloch said in a telephone interview.
   
   In Argentina, she said 75 percent of pregnant women interviewed said they had tried smoking.
   
   All of the Latin American sites studied found large numbers of women who had experimented with smoking. Bloch said she thinks that as more cultural and economic barriers to women's smoking fall, more of these women will become regular smokers.
   
   Smokeless tobacco was used by a third of the women in the Indian state of Orissa, while the highest levels of secondhand smoke exposure were found in Pakistan.

3. 3. Global Smoke Free Partnership :: news & features

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   In the United States, where antismoking campaigns have a long history, steady declines in cigarette consumption have been linked to falling rates of lung cancer, particularly among men, says Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D., a medical officer with the NCI's tobacco control research branch. During the 1950s, up to 70% of U.S. adults smoked, she says, compared with roughly 21% today. But these declines mask important disparities, she adds.
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   Groups involved in that effort-including (among many others) Harvard's public-health program and regional associations like the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco, a 10-nation organization based in Taiwan-now invest heavily in local campaigns to destroy the myth of the Marlboro man. Pictorial labels displaying mouth and lung tumors on cigarette packs have been particularly effective, Bloch says (see JNCI, Vol. 99, No. 6, p. 423).