The association between smoking and family health with the mediation role of personality among Chinese people: nationwide cross-sectional study by Jiangyun Chen, Menglin Luo, Li Gan, Haomiao Li, Siyuan Liu, Na Ren, Yan Zhou, Jiao Yang, Haozheng Zhou, Xuanhao Yin, Jiahuan Wan, Xinlei Yang, Yibo Wu, Zenni Luo

“…Abstract Background There may be unexplored interactions between family health, personality, and smoking that could help provide new perspectives on tobacco control. Objective To examine the relationship between the health of one’s family and their smoking habits, as well as investigate the potential influence of personality on this relationship. …”
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Use of Machine Learning Tools in Evidence Synthesis of Tobacco Use Among Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations: Algorithm Development and Validation by Shaoying Ma, Shuning Jiang, Olivia Yang, Xuanzhi Zhang, Yu Fu, Yusen Zhang, Aadeeba Kaareen, Meng Ling, Jian Chen, Ce Shang

“…Using this iterative process, we extracted and assessed studies relevant to LGBTQ+ tobacco control issues, further comparing our findings with an ongoing systematic review that also focuses on evidence synthesis for this demographic group. …”
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Uncertainty stress and self-rated health during the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak by Zan Zhu, Dan Wu, Kaigong Wei, Yingbi Liu, Zhe Xu, Guihua Jiao, Lingwei Yu, Alyx Taylor, Liye Zou

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Self-reported tobacco smoking practices among medical students and their perceptions towards training about tobacco smoking in medical curricula: A cross-sectional, questionnaire s... by Shah Mohsin, Pereira Xavier V, Islam Md R, Rahman Mahbubur, Kumar HN Harsha, Menezes Ritesh G, Suri Sushil, Sreeramareddy Chandrashekhar T, Sathian Brijesh, Shetty Ullasa, Vaswani Vina R

“…Majority of the students agreed about doctors' role in tobacco control as being role models, competence in smoking cessation methods, counseling, and the need for training about tobacco cessation in medical schools. …”
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Smoking cessation interventions and implementations in Japan: a study protocol for a scoping review and supplemental survey by Junko Saito, Taichi Shimazu, Masakazu Nakamura, Yuki Kaji, Miyuki Odawara, Tomomi Nagasawa, Haruhiko Imamura, Keiichi Yuwaki, Kazuya Nogi

“…Introduction Despite various tobacco control measures in Japan, smoking remains a leading cause of mortality. …”
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Evaluating the Efficacy of Automated Smoking Treatment for People With HIV: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Damon J Vidrine, Thanh C Bui, Michael S Businelle, Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Steven K Sutton, Lokesh Shahani, Diana Stewart Hoover, Kristina Bowles, Jennifer I Vidrine

“…If efficacy is established, the AT approach will be readily adoptable by HIV clinics and community-based organizations, and it will offer an efficient way to allocate limited public health resources to tobacco control interventions. Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT05014282; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05014282 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)PRR1-10.2196/33183…”
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Health Promotion of Children of Parents with Premature Cardiovascular Diseases through Education of Healthy Lifestyle:Isfahan Healthy Heart Program-Heart Health Promotion from Chil... by Hamid Sanei, Roya Kelishadi, Nizal Sarafzadegan, Rezvan Pashmi, Ebrahim Rahimi, Shohreh Ghatreh- Samani, Nooshin Khavarian

“…After physical examination, filling in questionnaires and blood sampling, oral and written information about healthy lifestyle especially for healthy nutrition, increasing physical activity and tobacco control were provided for children and their families. …”
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Mortality and years of life lost of lung cancer among residents in Pudong New Area of Shanghai from 1995 to 2021 by ZHOU Yi, SHENG Jiayi, CHEN Yichen, LI Rongyue, XIAO Shaotan, PAN Jie

“…Age structure factors and gender factors contributed to the increase of lung cancer mortality， while non-population age structure factors overall appeared to play a protective role which might be related to the improvements in factors such as tobacco control and environmental management. The PYLL of lung cancer was 160 296 person years， the PYLL rate was 2.24‰， and the AYLL was 3.86 years per person.ConclusionAge structure factors are a significant contributor to the disease burden and result in the increase in the crude lung cancer mortality rate of Pudong residents of shanghai. …”
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Direct Outreach in Bars and Clubs to Enroll Cigarette Smokers in Mobile Cessation Services: Exploratory Study by Patricia Chalela, Alfred L McAlister, Cliff Despres, Edgar Muñoz, Pramod Sukumaran, David Akopian, Sahak Kaghyan, Jesus Trujillo, Amelie G Ramirez

“…Adapting recruitment strategies to expand the reach of cessation programs to where tobacco users are located may help decrease the health-equity gap in tobacco control by improving reach and enrollment of underserved smokers residing in low-income and rural areas who are not reached by traditional cessation services. …”
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INDIRECT TAXES IN GEORGIA: PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES by Guram Uphlisashvili

“…This, on the one hand, was due to the country's international obligations, as we are connected to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and we also have an association agreement with the European Union. …”
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Autorreporte de exposición a publicidad y promoción de tabaco en una cohorte de fumadores mexicanos Tobacco advertising and promotions: changes in reported exposure in a cohort of... by Rosaura Pérez-Hernández, James F Thrasher, Rosibel Rodríguez-Bolaños, Inti Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Norma A Ibáñez-Hernández

“…<br>OBJECTIVE: To determine in a population-based sample of smokers the level exposure to tobacco industry marketing through different channels before and after their restriction through the General Tobacco Control Law of 2008. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data were analyzed from a cohort of adult smokers from four Mexican cities who were surveyed in 2007 and 2008. …”
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Effectiveness of nicotine salt vapes, cytisine, and a combination of these products, for smoking cessation in New Zealand: protocol for a three-arm, pragmatic, community-based rand... by Natalie Walker, Amanda Calder, Joanne Barnes, George Laking, Varsha Parag, Chris Bullen

“…The trial will provide some of the first evidence on the effectiveness of combining nicotine salt e-cigarettes with cytisine for smoking cessation, in a country with strong tobacco control policy. Findings will be incorporated into relevant systematic reviews, informing practice and policy. …”
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Global patterns of asthma burden related to environmental risk factors during 1990–2019: an age-period-cohort analysis for global burden of disease study 2019 by Siying Zhang, Zongshi Gao, Lihong Wu, Yumei Zhong, Hui Gao, Fang-biao Tao, Xiulong Wu

“…Policy makers from low SDI region should reinforce tobacco control and prioritize workplace protection.…”
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Cameras for Public Health Surveillance: A Methods Protocol for Crowdsourced Annotation of Point-of-Sale Photographs by Ilakkuvan, Vinu, Tacelosky, Michael, Ivey, Keith C, Pearson, Jennifer L, Cantrell, Jennifer, Vallone, Donna M, Abrams, David B, Kirchner, Thomas R

“…ObjectiveThis paper describes a methods protocol, using photographs from point-of-sale surveillance studies in the field of tobacco control to demonstrate the development and testing of custom-built tools that can greatly enhance the quality of crowdsourced annotation. …”
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Can counter-advertising exposing alcohol sponsorship and harms influence sport spectators’ support for alcohol policies? An experimental study by Maree Scully, Helen Dixon, Emily Brennan, Jeff Niederdeppe, Kerry O’Brien, Simone Pettigrew, Brian Vandenberg, Melanie Wakefield

“…This study tested whether exposure to counter-advertising exposing industry marketing of harmful products—a technique shown to be effective in tobacco control—promotes higher support for policy change and less favourable beliefs about the alcohol industry among sport spectators. …”
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Mothers’ prenatal tobacco smoke exposure is positively associated with the occurrence of developmental coordination disorder among children aged 3–6 years: A cross-sectional study... by Qing Yang*, Liqin Pan*, Cuili Shen*, Huilin Yao*, Qingqing Zhu, Chunfen Cheng, Ruiping Wang

“…It is crucial to implement tobacco control measures to decrease the prevalence of smoking among pregnant women and SHS exposure at home as well as in the work environment.…”
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Cigarette sharing and gifting in China: Patterns, associated factors, and behavioral outcomes by Dan Wu, Guihua Jiao, Huan Hu, Lu Zhang, Lixin Huang, Shuhan Jiang

“…This study provides evidence-based data to support the design and implementation of tobacco control programs for the denormalization of gifting and sharing cigarettes.…”
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The global, regional, and national burden of stomach cancer attributed to smoking in 204 countries, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Fupeng Ren, Zhilong Shi, Xiu Shen, Gangfeng Xiao, Chaoying Zhang, Yiquan Cheng

“…These regions with a higher burden emphasize the necessity for the implementation of strong tobacco control measures.…”
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The smoke-free home study: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial of a smoke-free home intervention in permanent supportive housing by Rachel Odes, Jessica Alway, Margot Kushel, Wendy Max, Maya Vijayaraghavan

“…Findings from this study have the potential to inform adoption of tobacco control policies among vulnerable populations most at risk for smoking-related harms. …”
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Use of electronic cigarettes across 13 ITC countries with different regulatory environments by Shannon Gravely, Sara C. Hitchman, Ann McNeil, K. Michael Cummings, Ron Borland, Hua-Hie Yong, David Hammond, Geoffrey T. Fong

“…Methods Cross-sectional analyses of representative samples of adult (≥18-years) current and former smokers participating in International Tobacco Control Project (ITC) surveys in 13 countries from the most recent ITC survey wave (2013-2017). …”
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