Objective Assessing the impact of the recent excise hike in Poland, with particular attention to differences between tertiary ...

Background As part of its COVID-19 response, South Africa banned tobacco sales between March and August 2020. We examined ...

Correspondence to Dr Thuy T T Le, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor 48109, MI, USA; thuyttle{at}umich.edu Background For many years, ...

Background India’s 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform standardised tax rates nationwide, replacing varying state-level value-added taxes (VAT) with a tiered GST structure that applied the ...

Background Tobacco taxes are an effective method of reducing consumption, but Bangladesh’s tax policy is weak and needs improvement in many areas. Objective This study aimed to analyse the political ...

Objectives To assess trends in cigarette sales and prices and estimate price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in the WHO regions. Methods Cigarette sales data (2008–2022) for 98 countries (88.7% of ...

Objective To compare trends in cigarette smoking and nicotine vaping among US population aged 17–18 years and 18–24 years. Methods Regression analyses identified trends in ever and current use of ...

Correspondence to Dr Alan D Lopez, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Dr. Lopez was affiliated with IHME and HMS when this work was undertaken; ...

Introduction Accelerating progress on tobacco control will require Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to be systematically integrated into policies and practices of sectors ...

Lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanisation and mass marketing towards the ...

Objective To review evidence on the impact of health warning messages on tobacco packages. Data sources Articles were identified through electronic databases of published articles, as well as relevant ...

Correspondence to Professor Timothy Dewhirst, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; ...