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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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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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Effectiveness of a hospital-initiated smoking cessation programme: 2-year health and healthcare outcomes

Background Tobacco-related illnesses are leading causes of death and healthcare use. Our objective was to determine whether implementation of a hospital-initiated smoking cessation intervention would ...
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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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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 ...