Objectives China, the leading global tobacco producer and consumer with 300 million smokers (50.5% male prevalence) and over one million smoking-attributable deaths annually, lacks a comprehensive ...

Introduction Cigarette smoking continues to exert a major impact on morbidity and mortality. We aim to provide robust estimates of smoking dynamics and their effects on mortality in Tuscany, Italy, ...

Objective To examine the potential implications and challenges posed by the global expansion of China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC) for global tobacco control efforts. Methods We used publicly ...

Background: The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey (ITC-4) is a prospective cohort study designed to evaluate the psychosocial and behavioural impact of national-level tobacco ...

Introduction US tobacco control policies to reduce cigarette use have been effective, but their impact has been relatively slow. This study considers a strategy of switching cigarette smokers to ...

Objective To explore what is known about the tobacco industry’s (TI) price-based responses to tobacco excise tax policies and whether these vary by country income group using a systematic review. Data ...

The tobacco-free generation proposal advocates legislation precluding the sale and supply of tobacco to individuals born after a certain year. The measure is aimed at overcoming defects with current ...

Objectives The vast majority of tobacco users began before the age of 21. Raising the tobacco sales age to 21 has the potential to reduce tobacco use initiation and progression to regular smoking. Our ...

Identification of significant methodological issues in two recent studies of the illicit cigarette trade in Malaysia. Updated estimates of the illicit cigarette trade in Malaysia which verify the ...

1 UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies/Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK 2 UK Centre for Tobacco ...

Committee to Assess the Science Base for Tobacco Harm, Reduction, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC, USA Tobacco smoke is the cause of the most deadly epidemic of modern ...