Tobacco Awareness among Physicians in the Former Soviet Block

Authors

L. Daniel Holsinger, Brigham Young University
Dr. Gordon Lindsay, Brigham Young University

Keywords

tobacco awareness, physicians, Ukraine, former Soviet block

College

Life Sciences

Department

Health Science

Abstract

During the summer of 2001, I traveled for the third time to Ukraine. Unlike my previous longstay residencies in Ukraine (totaling four years), which had focused on language and cultural studies, as well as general humanitarian and missionary service, my third stay was motivated by an explicit agenda to fight big tobacco interests in that country. With strong faculty support, and convinced that the frontal marketing assault to expand tobacco markets in Ukraine was harmful to its citizens, I designed and began to carry out a research effort focused primarily on a tobacco consumption crisis in the former Soviet Union. Although there are currently devastatingly high levels of tobacco related illnesses in the former Soviet Union, this problem does not seem to be a major agenda item for the Ukrainian people.

Recommended Citation

Holsinger, L. Daniel and Lindsay, Dr. Gordon (2014) "Tobacco Awareness among Physicians in the Former Soviet Block," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 767.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/767