Tobacco Control

Use of nicotine pouches among adults who currently or formerly smoked cigarettes and/or vaped nicotine: findings from the 2022 and 2024 US ITC smoking and vapin…

Background Nicotine pouches (NPs) are one of the fastest growing tobacco product categories in the United States (US). We ...
Tobacco Control

Effect of tobacco sales bans on retail sales in Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, USA: a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis

Background On 1 January 2021, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, became the first cities in the USA to ban tobacco product sales. We evaluated the effects of these policies on the sale of ...
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Regulator’s Trojan horse: the tobacco industry’s advisory council institutionalised within the government in Spain

Objective To analyse the political strategies employed by tobacco industry representatives to exploit their statutory ...
Tobacco Control

Attributable mortality to secondhand tobacco smoke exposure in the 27 Brazilian federal units in 2019

Objectives To estimate the attributable mortality to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure among the population aged 35 years and older in Brazil and its 27 federal units in 2019. Study design ...
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Cigarette design and marketing features are associated with increased smoking susceptibility and perception of reduced harm among smokers in 27 EU countries

Correspondence to Dr Israel T Agaku, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA; iagaku{at}post.harvard.edu ...
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Smokers’ awareness of filter ventilation, and how they believe it affects them: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey

Background Filter ventilation creates sensations of ‘lightness’ or ‘smoothness’ and is also highly effective for controlling machine-tested yields of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide. Nearly all ...
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Early history of LGBT tobacco control: CLASH at 25

Correspondence to Naphtali Offen, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, P.O. Box 0612, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; naphtali.offen{at}ucsf.edu In the ...
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Tracking and tracing the tobacco industry: potential tobacco industry influence over the EU’s system for tobacco traceability and security features

Background Subsequent to the transnational tobacco companies’ (TTC) history of involvement in tobacco smuggling, the Illicit Trade Protocol (ITP) requires that tobacco tracking and tracing (T&T) ...
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What are the elements of the tobacco endgame?

Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to George Thomson, University of Otago, Box 7343, Wellington South, Wellington 6002, New Zealand; ...
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How has the prevalence of cigarette smoking changed among Australian adults? Trends in smoking prevalence between 1980 and 2001

1 Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Control Research Institute, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia 2 VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia ...
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Synthetic nicotine has arrived

Correspondence to Dr Sven-Eric Jordt, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710-3094, USA; sven.jordt{at}duke.edu In US federal regulations, any product ...
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Tobacco companies introduce ‘tobacco-free’ nicotine pouches

Correspondence to Andrew B. Seidenberg, Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; aseiden{at}live.unc.edu ...