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An advocacy-research collaboration model to inform evidence-based tobacco control efforts
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Behind the smoke: using authenticity to romanticise cigars
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Identifying substances suspected of facilitating inhalation or increasing nicotine uptake as part of the enforcement of the Tobacco Products Directive
The Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD) introduced rules prohibiting tobacco products and liquids for electronic cigarettes with nicotine which contain substances or additives that facilitate ...
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Association of menthol-flavoured cigarette smoking with all-cause and cause-specific mortality risk
Introduction Menthol-flavoured cigarettes remain unregulated in the USA and in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) despite their known impacts on smoking uptake and reduced cessation. Yet, ...
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Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘endgame’ legislation: a critical analysis of the parliamentary repeal debate using an adapted policy dystopia model approach
Introduction In February 2024, Aotearoa New Zealand’s newly elected coalition Government repealed policies to reduce the addictiveness, availability and accessibility of smoked tobacco. The repeal ...
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Exploring the gateway hypothesis of e-cigarettes and tobacco: a prospective replication study among adolescents in the Netherlands and Flanders
Background Studies demonstrated that adolescent e-cigarette use is associated with subsequent tobacco smoking, commonly referred to as the gateway effect. However, most studies only investigated ...
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Flavour spectrum of the Puff family of disposable e-cigarettes
Correspondence to Professor Robert K Jackler, Stanford Research into The Impact of Tobacco Advertising, 801 Welch Road, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; ...
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An estimation of the harm of menthol cigarettes in the United States from 1980 to 2018
Correspondence to Thuy TT Le, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; thuyttle{at}umich.edu Background Menthol cigarettes ...
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Prevalence of heated tobacco product use in Japan: the 2020 JASTIS study
Background Japan is the leading market for heated tobacco products (HTPs). We assessed the latest prevalence of HTP use including novel products (Ploom S, glo sens, and Pulze). Methods Data were ...
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What public health strategies are needed to reduce smoking initiation?
3 Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Dr John P Pierce, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer ...
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Rapid increase in heated tobacco product (HTP) use from 2015 to 2019: from the Japan ‘Society and New Tobacco’ Internet Survey (JASTIS)
Correspondence to Dr Ai Hori, Department of Global Public Health, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan; ihori-sgy{at}umin.ac.jp Heated tobacco products (HTPs) were introduced in ...
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Cross-validation of four different survey methods used to estimate illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil
Objective To cross-validate estimates of the size of the illicit cigarette trade based on the results of four different survey methods. Methods In 2018/2019, four non-industry-funded, large-scale ...