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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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 vaping surveys

Background Nicotine pouches (NPs) are one of the fastest growing tobacco product categories in the United States (US). We estimated the prevalence of NP use in 2022 and 2024 among US adults with ...
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Global tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship regulation: what’s old, what’s new and where to next?

Correspondence to Dr Becky Freeman, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; becky.freeman{at}sydney.edu.au Tobacco advertising, ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Revisiting the association between worldwide implementation of the MPOWER package and smoking prevalence, 2008–2017

Background We revisited the association between progress in MPOWER implementation from 2008 to 2016 and smoking prevalence from 2009 to 2017 and offered an in-depth understanding of differential ...
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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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Clearing the smoke: the science base for tobacco harm reduction—executive summary

Committee to Assess the Science Base for Tobacco Harm, Reduction, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC, USA Tobacco smoke is the cause of the most deadly epidemic of modern ...
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Thirdhand cigarette smoke in an experimental chamber: evidence of surface deposition of nicotine, nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and de novo formation of NNK

3 Department of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA 4 Department of Environmental Energy Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, California, ...
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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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Smoke-free bars in Ireland: a runaway success

Correspondence to: Fenton Howell Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, International House, 20-22 Hatch Street Lower, Dublin 2, Ireland; fentonhowelleircom.net On ...