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 ...

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

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 To identify important parameters for targeted smoking intervention strategies, we examined smoking initiation, ...

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 ...

Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform standardised tax rates nationwide, replacing varying state-level value-added taxes (VAT) with a tiered GST structure that applied the highest 28% rate on tobacco ...

Background India’s 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform standardised tax rates nationwide, replacing varying state-level value-added taxes (VAT) with a tiered GST structure that applied the ...

Background Tobacco companies employ various advertising methods, including immersive consumer experiences and cultural imagery, to promote their products. To our knowledge, no prior studies have ...

Objective Consistent with the role of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the aims of this study were to review the FCTC progress reports submitted by the Pacific Island Countries ...

Oral nicotine pouches may have potential for smoking cessation, but scientific evidence on the effects of pouches and their constituents on smoking behaviour is limited. Design This study was a 4-week ...

Oral nicotine pouches may have potential for smoking cessation, but scientific evidence on the effects of pouches and their constituents on smoking behaviour is limited. Design This study was a 4-week ...

Objective Adoption of smoke-free policies (SFPs) in public venues, workplaces and other settings may prevent chronic smoking-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and respiratory ...