Objective The USA is considering a very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarette standard. We sought to characterise the prevalence and correlates of the incorrect belief that VLNC cigarettes are less ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Popova, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA; lpopova1{at}gsu.edu Objective In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced ...

Correspondence to Dr Prue Talbot, Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; talbot{at}ucr.edu Objective To evaluate performance of the I ...

The issues related to tobacco harm reduction continue to challenge the tobacco control research and policy communities. The potential for combusting tobacco products to reduce exposure and risk ...

Correspondence to Dr Yongda Wu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, Hong Kong; yongdang{at}connect.hku.hk Objectives To examine the trends in the prevalence of hardening indicators and ...

Correspondence to Dr Arpit Gupta, Unit of Public Health Dentistry, Oral Health Sciences Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh - 160012, India; ...

Background To control the illicit cigarette market, the government of Pakistan adopted a Tracking and Tracing System (TTS) that was fully operational by July 2022, despite many roadblocks. By this ...

Significant achievements in the area of tobacco control have been made in the kingdom of Bhutan in the Eastern Himalayas, following the initiation of several tobacco control activities ...

Background E-cigarette products are the most popular tobacco/nicotine product used among youth and young adults in the USA.

3 Center for Health Research, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, Portland, Oregon, USA 4 Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention of the Oregon Division of Health, ...

Objective This study examines the extent to which cigarette taxes affect smoking behaviour and disparities in smoking among adolescents by gender, socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity.

a European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, b University College London, London Professor M McKee, European Centre on Health of ...