Protocol for creating new warnings on cigarette packs and evaluating their efficacy in a randomised experimental setting by Christian Ben Lakhdar, Antoine Deplancke, Fabrice Le Lec, Sophie Massin, Anthony Piermatteo, Nicolas Vaillant

“…This is not inevitable as tobacco control tools have become more powerful and more effective. …”
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Determinants of pregnant women’s online self-regulatory activities for appropriate gestational weight gain by Kim, Hye Kyung, Niederdeppe, Jeff, Guillory, Jamie, Graham, Meredith, Olson, Christine, Gay, Geri

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Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception pe... by Tjandra, Nathalia Christiani, Garavan, Thomas N., Aroean, Lukman, Prabandari, Yayi Suryo

“…Practical implications: The findings have important implications for tobacco control regulators who wish to curtail TAPS in a country where all levels of the ecological system reinforce their collective validity. …”

The global burden of ischemic stroke: findings of the GBD 2010 study. by Bennett, D, Krishnamurthi, R, Barker-Collo, S, Forouzanfar, M, Naghavi, M, Connor, M, Lawes, C, Moran, A, Anderson, L, Roth, G, Mensah, G, Ezzati, M, Murray, C, Feigin, V

“…Tobacco consumption is an important modifiable risk factor for IS, and in both 1990 and 2010, the top ranked countries for IS deaths that could be attributed to tobacco consumption were China, Russia, and India. Tobacco control policies that target both smoking initiation and smoking cessation can play an important role in the prevention of IS. …”

Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. by Huxley, R, Woodward, M

“…INTERPRETATION: Whether mechanisms underlying the sex difference in risk of coronary heart disease are biological or related to differences in smoking behaviour between men and women is unclear. Tobacco-control programmes should consider women, particularly in those countries where smoking among young women is increasing in prevalence. …”

Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and initiation among young people in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019 by Reitsma, MB, Flor, LS, Mullany, EC, Gupta, V, Hay, SI, Gakidou, E

“…Countries can substantially improve the health of their populations by implementing and enforcing evidence-based tobacco control policies that prevent the next generation from initiating smoking. …”

The nonparametric approach to demand analysis: essays in revealed preference theory by Adams, A

“…Applying these techniques to consumption micro-data yields new empirical insights that are of relevance to the applied literatures on time discounting, family economics and the public policy debate on tobacco control.</p>…”

Empowering Malaysian dentists to tobacco dependence treatment conduct by Amer Nordin, Amer Siddiq, Abdul Kadir, R., Yahya, N.A., Zakaria, H., Abd Rashid, Rusdi, Habil, H.

“…As a signatory to the World Health Organisation 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Malaysia has policies in place and funded 300 public Quit clinics. …”

Unsuccessful quitters among smokers in stop smoking services in Perlis : the proportion and its associated factors by Ismail, Muhammad Ikhwan

“…Thus as a preventive strategy, one of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendation is to provide stop smoking services in health facility especially in primary health care. …”
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Fiscal policy impact on tobacco consumption, in high smoking prevalence transition economies / the case of Albania by Aida Gjika, Klodjan Rama, Edvin Zhllima, Drini Imami

“…An awareness campaign has to be organized in order to inform policymakers on the importance of applying excise increase for the tobacco control in Albania.…”
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Depression symptoms and quitting among a nationally representative sample of smokers from Africa by Fastone Goma, Susan C Kaai, Jane Ong'ang'o, Lawrence Ikamari, Gang Meng, Anne C K Quah, Geoffrey T Fong

“…Methods Data were analyzed from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Kenya Wave 1 (2012) and Zambia Wave 2 (2014) surveys of nationally representative samples of adult smokers (N=2,055). …”
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A gender-specific assessment of tobacco use risk factors: evidence from the latest Pakistan demographic and health survey by Faiqa Zubair, Muhammad Iftikhar ul Husnain, Ting Zhao, Hasnat Ahmad, Rasheda Khanam

“…A better understanding of the key risk factors of tobacco use is needed to identify and implement effective tobacco control measures. Objectives To investigate the key socioeconomic, demographic, and psychosocial determinants of tobacco smoking in a recent large nationally representative sample of Pakistani adults. …”
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Visualizing data: Trends in smoking tobacco prices and taxes in India [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by G. Emmanuel Guindon, Tooba Fatima, David X. Li, Alexandra Joukova, Jitender Sudhir, Sujata Mishra, Frank J. Chaloupka, Prabhat Jha

“…Although increasing tobacco prices has consistently been found to be the most effective intervention to reduce tobacco use, the documentation of prices and taxes across time and space has not been an essential component of tobacco control surveillance in most jurisdictions. This study aimed to examine, using graphical methods, trends in smoking tobacco taxes and prices in India at national and state-level. …”
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Who is using snus? - Time trends, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of snus users in the ageing Swedish population by Norberg Margareta, Malmberg Gunnar, Ng Nawi, Broström Göran

“…These patterns should be taken into consideration in tobacco control policies.</p>…”
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Tobacco use among non-elderly adults with and without criminal justice involvement in the past year: United States, 2008–2016 by Tyler N. A. Winkelman, Katherine Diaz Vickery, Andrew M. Busch

“…Conclusions Novel programs and tobacco control policies are needed to address persistently high rates of tobacco use and reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among individuals with a history of criminal justice involvement.…”
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Cigarette taxation and neonatal and infant mortality: A longitudinal analysis of 159 countries. by Márta K Radó, Anthony A Laverty, Thomas Hone, Kiara Chang, Mohammed Jawad, Christopher Millett, Jasper V Been, Filippos T Filippidis

“…Covariates included scores for other WHO recommended tobacco control policies, socioeconomic, health-care, and air quality measures. …”
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El efecto del precio del tabaco sobre el consumo: un análisis de datos agregados para México The effect of tobacco prices on consumption: a time series data analysis for Mexico by Rosa Itandehui Olivera-Chávez, Rodolfo Cermeño-Bazán, Belén Sáenz de Miera-Juárez, Jorge Alberto Jiménez-Ruiz, Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu

“…The results confirmed the effectiveness of taxes as an instrument for tobacco control in Mexico. An increase in taxes can be used to increase cigarette prices and therefore to reduce consumption and increase government revenue.…”
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Presence of flavoured electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products in US ENDS advertisements, 2015–2020: a content analysis by Kevin Welding, Lauren Czaplicki, Ryan David Kennedy, Dannielle Kelley, M B Moran, Lidya Tadesse, Jessica Handy

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The association of waterpipe smoking with arterial stiffness and wave reflection in a community-based sample by Hassan A. Chami, Hussain Isma'eel, Gary F. Mitchel, Hani Tamim, Maha Makki, Adel Berbari, Ahmad Al Mulla

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Use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) among Chinese adults: evidence from citywide representative surveys from 12 cities in China (2014 to 2016) by Jidong Huang, Pamela Redmon, Zongshuan Duan, Yixin Duan, Yuan Jiang, Michael Eriksen

“…Tailored interventions, as part of a comprehensive tobacco control and cessation strategy, which may include ENDS in assisting smokers in achieving complete cessation, may have a positive public health impact in China. …”
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