Introduction In the USA, most tobacco control research has focused on federal-level and state-level policies. However, ...

IQOS is the most popular heated tobacco product (HTP) worldwide, marketed by the world’s largest transnational tobacco company, Philip Morris International (PMI).1 HTPs comprise two components: an ...

Background Vaping rates are increasing globally. Restricting vaping products’ access may result in net population health loss if youths who vape switch to smoking, or net gain if it promotes cessation ...

Background Oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) have rapidly gained popularity in recent years. While ONPs likely expose users to fewer toxicants than cigarettes, they contain nicotine and may initiate, ...

Background Japan lacks regulations governing tobacco advertisements, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) in Japan. We investigate TAPS’ impact on harm perceptions and heated tobacco products (HTPs) ...

The tobacco control community consistently describes tobacco taxation in two ways: it is the most effective intervention and the least implemented.1 The scholarship on tax’s effectiveness for ...

Background Despite compelling evidence on the health hazards of tobacco products accumulated over the past 70 years, smoking remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Policy action to control ...

Introduction Even prior to 2018, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) began to dramatically change the landscape of tobacco products and product use patterns in the USA. Methods Using a Markov ...

Thirty years ago, in 1992, the largest cigarette package health warnings in the world had a size of just 20% of the package front and back. Those warnings, in Canada, were text-only messages in ...

Smoking initiation is a key behaviour that determines the future health consequences of smoking in a society. There is a marked difference in smoking patterns around the world, driven by initiation ...

Yearly, tobacco use kills about 8 million people globally, 80% of whom live in low/middle-income countries. Given sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) rapidly increasing and youthful population, growing incomes ...

Background Tobacco corporation Philip Morris International launched the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW), a purportedly independent scientific organisation, in 2017. We aimed to systematically ...