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 ...
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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Differential price responses for tobacco consumption: implications for tax incidence

Increasing tobacco taxes is considered the most effective an cost-effective policy to reduce tobacco consumption. However, a common objection to tobacco taxes is that they tend to rely ...
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Overview of tobacco use transitions for population health

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act provided the US Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products using a population health standard. Models have been developed ...
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Application of toxicological risk assessment principles to the chemical constituents of cigarette smoke

Objective: To provide a hazard prioritisation for reported chemical constituents of cigarette smoke using toxicological risk assessment principles and assumptions. The purpose is to inform prevention ...
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Nicotine pouches: a summary of regulatory approaches across 67 countries

Correspondence to Ms Michelle Duren, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; mduren3{at}jhmi.edu Introduction Nicotine ...
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Smoking, social class, and gender: what can public health learn from the tobacco industry about disparities in smoking?

Objective: To discover how the tobacco industry considers social class and gender in its efforts to market cigarettes in the USA, particularly to socially disadvantaged young women. Methods: A ...
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Industry marketing of tobacco products on social media: case study of Philip Morris International’s IQOS

Correspondence to Dr Lorien C Abroms, Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC 20052, USA; lorien{at}gwu.edu ...
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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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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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Marketing ZYN: examining branded and unbranded content

In January 2024, United States (US) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for federal action to ‘crackdown’ on ZYN, a new nicotine pouch product that is tobacco-free yet contains nicotine.