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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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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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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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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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.
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Explaining the social gradient in smoking cessation: it’s not in the trying, but in the succeeding

Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Dr Robert West, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, Department of ...
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Impact of the WHO FCTC on non-cigarette tobacco products

Correspondence to Dr Ghazi S Zaatari MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; zaatari{at}aub.edu.lb Introduction This paper investigates to ...
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

Social determinants of support for tobacco control policies to end the use of commercial cigarettes: findings from the 2022 International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking ...

Background Some countries are exploring policies that might help lower cigarette smoking prevalence to below 5% by 2030. This study assesses support for three policies among adults who smoke: (1) ...
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Price and tobacco marketing strategy: lessons from ‘dark’ markets and implications for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Correspondence to Professor Timothy Dewhirst, Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies, College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1; dewhirst{at}uoguelph ...
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Potential impact of eliminating illicit trade in cigarettes: a demand-side perspective

Background The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (the Protocol) entered into force in September 2018, and commits Parties to implement a package of measures to combat this global ...