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3rd WATCH-2004 Highlights
 
S. No. 7th March 2004, Sunday
Inaugural Session Brig. Vimal Arora
0900 -1000 Holi Milan Inauguration
0900 - 0910 Vandana Saraswati Vandana
0910 - 0915 Welcome address Krishna Dalal
0915 - 0945 Watch Overview Major General Avnish K. Varma R.C.Dhir,
Major Gen.Avnish K. Varma,
Global Views : USA Elizabeth Emerson,
Global Views : JAPAN Toshitaka Nakahara
Global Views : EUROPE Rudolf Schoberberger
Global Views : INDIA K. A. Dinshaw
Global Views : CANADA David A. Scott
Book Release By : Lt. Gen.R.C.Dhir
0945 -1000 Vote of Thanks Bhanu Iyengar
Scientific Session - I CHAIRPERSON:- Donna Murnaghan (Canada) & Kazunari Satomura (Japan)
1000 -1030 India K. A. Dinshaw FCTC -Tobacco Control Advocacy - the Role of Cancer Centres in India
1030 -1100 Tea Break
2 1100 -1300 India V.K.Vijayan Health benefits of Smoking Cessation
3 Canada David A. Scott Tobacco Smoking Predisposes to Early Onset, Rapidly-Progressing, and Poorly Responsive Periodontal Disease
4 Poland Dorota Gorecka A Risk for COPD in Nicotine Dependent Smokers
5 USA Koustubh Panda Cigarette Smoke-Induced Oxidative Lung Damage: Insight into Emerging Mechanisms of Emphysema
6 Bangladesh Arup Ratan Choudhury Tobacco Habits and Dental Diseases In Diabetes
7 Poland Elzbieta Puscinska Effects of Antismoking Advice Accompanying a Mass Spirometry on Smoking Cessation
8 India Saudan Singh Smoking and Health Awareness In Adolescent Medicos
1300 -1400 Lunch Break
1400 -1530 Scientific Session - II CHAIRPERSON: K. A. Dinshaw (India) & V.K. Vijayan (India)
9 Canada Donna Murnaghan Prevention of Tobacoo use among Youth
10 USA Elizabeth Emerson New Trends in the North American Smoke Free Workplace Movement (and the Tobacco Industry’s Response)
11 Denmark Charlotta Pisinger Smoking Reduction Intervention in a Large Randomised Population Based Study,
12 USA Kathleen Pezzimenti Tobacco industry marketing and manipulation (what is happening and what can be done to stop it?)
13 Japan Kenji Mogi Clinicopathological Studies On Oral Leuloplakia
14 India Raka Jain Effect of Nitic Oxide Synthase Inhibitors In Nicotine Precipitated Withdrawal Rats
1530 -1600 Tea Break
1600 -1730 Scientific Session - III CHAIRPERSON: Arup Ratan Choudhury (Bangladesh) &Toshitaka Nakahara (Japan)
15 Session Introduction Toshitaka Nakahara History of Government Policy against Tobacco in Japan
16 Japan Suketaka Iwanaga Cooperation and Support on The Smoking Prevention and Cessation Campaigns among the Municipal Health Departments and other Agencies in Japan
17 Japan Kazunari Satomura Health Education for Smoking Cessation In Japanese Enterprises
18 Japan Tomofumi Sone The evaluation of smoking cessation programs
8th March 2004, Monday
Scientific Session - IV CHAIRPERSON:  Taru Mustonen (USA) & Toshitaka Nakahara (Japan)
19 0900 - 0930 South Africa Ayo-Yusuf OA Control of Traditional Tobacco Products Usage in South Africa
20 Austria Rudolf Schoberberger Smoking Cessation and Different Roles of Health Professionals
21 0930 - 1030 Finland Mustonen Juha Tobacco dependence and Cardiovascular Disease: North Karelia Hospital experiences
22 Poland Elzbieta Puscinska Factors that influence smoking cessation in a population screened for COPD by spirometry
23 India Rajiv Mohan Kaushik Smoking and endothelial dysfunction.
24 Iran Md.Ali Hidarnia The effect of coronary artery bypass graft surgery on quality of life in patients with Atherosclerosis
25 USA John H. O’Hara Ionization Radiation Contained In Tobacco Smoke
1030 - 1100 Tea Break
1100 - 1300 Scientific Session - V CHAIRPERSON: Jasjit Ahluwalia (USA) & Gianfranco Buccheri (Italy)
26 Singapore Sandeep Kumar Rajan Telomerase & Thymidine Kinase Allow Risk Stratification & Response Prediction In Head & Neck Premalignancies (Hnpm) Undergoing Chemoprevention
27 India Bibhu R. Das Studying Gene Expression Profile of Cheek Tumor by Differential Display PCR and its application in Diagnosis and Therapy
28 USA Richard A. Daynard
How can tobacco litigation advance tobacco control goals?
29 India Tanuja R. Teni
Expression of Apoptosis - related genes in human oral cancers from India
30 India Alka M. Chutani
Tobacco Use and its Relation To Other Risk Factors of Cardio Vascular Disease
31 Sudan Gornas N.A
Mutations of the P53 Gene among Sudanese Oral and Esophageal Cancer Patients
32 India Rohini Premkumari
Psycho-Social Predictors of Tobacco Cessation
33 Poland Dorota Gorecka Smoking Cessation in COPD Patients with Newly Diagnosed Airflow Limitation - A Real Life Approach
34 India Elizabeth Negi Whom can you Protect? - Preventive Strategies for High Risk Adolescent Groups
1300 - 1400 Lunch Break
1400 - 1500 Scientific Session - VI CHAIRPERSON:- Rudolf Schoberberger (Austria) & Richard Daynard (USA)
35 India Cherian Varghese Tobacco Cessation In Indian Context
36 Iran Jamileh Mohtashami Familial Factors Influencing Addiction
37 Congo Longo Mbenza Tobacco Epidemic in Subsaharan Africa: Poverty and Disease.
38 Norway Kjell Mo Passive smoking and children
39 Iran Farhadi Study of Psychlogical Profile of Narcotics Smugglers
40 Sudan Abdelrazig M.M. Role of Toombak & Smoking Research Center in Tobacco Control in Sudan
1500 -1530 Tea Break
1530 - 1730 Poster Session - I CHAIRPERSON :- Bhanu Iyengar (India)& Tenconi MT (ITALY)
41 Sweden Amir Baigi Smoking Habits and Lung Cancer Among Adults. Observation, Planning and Prevention
42 Iran Bakhshi Hamid Correlation Between Cigarette Smoking and dyslipidemia among Diabetic Patients In Rafsanjan, Iran
43 Iran S.Asgary In vitro effect of nicotine and cotinine on the susceptibility of LDL oxidation and hemoglobin glycosylation
44 USA Amy Rand Creative Expression Gets the Message Out to Youth
45 Iran Ziba Orang Correlation of cigarret smoke inhalation in pregrant women and fetal birth weight
46 Chile Karen K. Gutierrez Knowing What to Look For: Developing and Critiquing Advertising Ideas
47 India T.C.Gupta Some Methodological and Statistical Analysis Issues involving Oncological Studies
48 Japan Kazunari Satomura Health Education for Smoking Cessation in Japanese Enterprises
49 Iran Rafiee Daverani The Driving Behavior of Smoking Car Drivers In the Rafsanjan City (2003).
50 Japan Shimizu Masatsuzu Problem by Establishing Tobacco Control Division at the Outpatient Clinic of Tsuruta Hospital In Saito-City
51 Iran Zarrin Ahmadzadeh Smoking Restriction In Public Places (May 2003)
52 Iran Zahra Hesami Evaluation of Effectiveness of Individual Counseling for Quit Smoking In First Health House, Tehran-Iran 2002
53 Iran Hooman Sharifi Prevalence Study of Smoking In Tehran High School Students 2002-2003
54 Iran Nasrin Saadati Determining of beginning age of smoking among the self-introducer addicts of Ahwaz welfare center in 2000-2002.
55 Iran Tayebeh--Marashi Role of teaching in drug dependency prevention
56 Iran Shahla Vaziri Esfarjani Determination of relationship between cigarette smoker in the family and episodes of asthma in asthmatic children
9th March 2004, Tuesday
Scientific Session - VII CHAIRPERSON :- Syed Aljunid (Malaysia) & Maj.Gen.Paramjit Singh (India)
57 0900 - 1030 USA(30 min) Mamta Chawla-Sarkar Mechanisms Underlying Cigarette Smoke-Induced Cellular Apoptosis and Transformation
58 Denmark (20min) Charlotta Pisinger Smoking Cessation Intervention In a Large Randomised Population Based Study, Inter99
59 India Ashim Kumar Chatterjee Non-Conventional Treatment of Tobacco related Cancer gradually gets right perspective through Psorinum therapy
60 Iran Ali Madady A study on the relation between the recognition style of externally-oriented
61 India Ravi Mehrotra Efficacy of Brush Biopsy In the Early Diagnosis of Oral Soft Tissue Lesions
62 India Manish Bhargava Emerging patterns of oral cancer due to tobacco- A dental institutional study
63 Bangladesh Kamaluddin M Tobacco and lung cancer - Bangladesh perspective
64 India V. M. Das Atomic Genetics and Basic Etiology of Cancer
1030 - 1100 Tea Break
1100 - 1300 Scientific Session - VIII CHAIRPERSON :- Elizabeth Emerson (USA) & Charlotta Pisinger (Denmark)
65 USA Elizabeth Emerson Implementing and Enforcing Smoke Free Legislation at the Local Community Levels
66 India Saroj Bal Arora Diminution of Mutagenicity by Polyphenolic Rich Fraction of Terminaliachebula(Retz.)
67 USA Taru Kinnunen Mustonen Tobacco Dependence In Women: Health Burden and Treatment Challenges
68 India S. M. Balaji Leukoplakia and tobacco abuse
69 Malaysia Kin Foong A skill training approach to smoking prevention among Malaysian youth
70 USA John P. Elder Household Environmental Tobacco Smoke Rules in Diverse Populations
1300 - 1400 Lunch Break
1400 - 1500 Scientific Session - IX CHAIRPERSON:- Tomofumi Sone (Japan) & Kenji Mogi (Japan)
71 Italy Gianfranco Buccheri Raising Lung Cancer Profile
72 Iran Fatemeh Noghani An Analysis of the relationship between the rate of Alexithymia with the performance of the students in ZPN University.
73 India H. K. Chaturvedi Diminishing Effect of Education on Tobacco Use: Studies In Northeast India
74 India Prasanna Kumar Thomas Smoking Cessation Strategies
75 India Vidhubala E Socio-demographic predictors of tobacco cessation
76 USA John H. O’Hara Seminal research on indoor air pollution from environmental tobacco smoke
1500 - 1530 Tea Break
1530 - 1730 Poster Session - II CHAIRPERSON :- Shimizu Masatsuzu (JAPAN) & Amir Baigi (SWEDEN)
77 Iran