Tobacco Control

Distribution of tobacco retail outlets around secondary schools and association with students’ smoking behaviour in China, 2024

Background To protect youth from tobacco exposure, China’s Minors’ Protection Act prohibits tobacco retail outlets (TROs) around schools. However, the legislation lacks a specified restriction ...
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‘ZYN 10 Challenge’: illegal marketing of nicotine pouches as smoking cessation aids?

In the USA, tobacco products cannot be marketed as being intended to cure or treat disease, such as nicotine dependence, or ...
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Characterising ‘Spree Bar’: an examination of the popularity, marketing and composition of a vaping device with a nicotine analogue across multiple data streams

Background Spree Bar, a line of e-cigarette devices introduced in 2023, leverages 6-methylnicotine (6-MN) as its primary ...
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The importance of cigarette packaging in a ‘dark’ market: the ‘Silk Cut’ experience

1 Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland 2 UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Stirling, UK Correspondence to Dr Crawford ...
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Reassessing the importance of ‘lost pleasure’ associated with smoking cessation: implications for social welfare and policy

Correspondence to Dr Terry Frank Pechacek, School of Public Health, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, Georgia State University, Urban Life Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA; ...
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Synthetic nicotine has arrived

Correspondence to Dr Sven-Eric Jordt, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710-3094, USA; sven.jordt{at}duke.edu In US federal regulations, any product ...
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Application of toxicological risk assessment principles to the chemical constituents of cigarette smoke

Objective: To provide a hazard prioritisation for reported chemical constituents of cigarette smoke using toxicological risk assessment principles and assumptions. The purpose is to inform prevention ...
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Women and tobacco: a call for including gender in tobacco control research, policy and practice

1 UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, UK 2 British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, ...
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The global epidemiology of waterpipe smoking

Correspondence to Dr Wasim Maziak, Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, 11200 SW ...
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Reaching youth at the point of sale: cigarette marketing is more prevalent in stores where adolescents shop frequently

Objective: Although numerous studies describe the quantity and nature of tobacco marketing in stores, fewer studies examine the industry’s attempts to reach youth at the point of sale. This study ...
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Associations between lifetime tobacco exposure with infertility and age at natural menopause: the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study

Correspondence to Danielle Smith, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; danielle.smith{at}roswellpark.org Background Several ...
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Cigarettes, heated tobacco products and dual use: exhaled carbon monoxide, saliva cotinine and total tobacco consumed by Hong Kong tobacco users

Background Independent studies on exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and saliva cotinine levels in regular heated tobacco product (HTP) users, and how they compare with conventional cigarette (CC) smokers, ...