Prioritizing tobacco control & its cessation under sustainable development goals with a focus on India by Rakesh Gupta, Garima Bhatt, Sonu Goel, Rana Jugdeep Singh

“…While it gets addressed under SDG 3 through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) - the World Health Organization (WHO) global treaty (the target 3.a of SDG 3), the progress made globally and by India is slow. …”
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Modeling the future of tobacco control: Using SimSmoke to explore the feasibility of the tobacco endgame in Korea by Hana Kim <sup>+<sup>, Susan Park <sup>+<sup>, Heewon Kang, Naeun Kang, David T. Levy, Sung-il Cho

“…Methods The impact of strengthened tobacco-control policies on smoking prevalence was analyzed using Korea SimSmoke, a discrete-time Markov process. …”
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Topic prediction for tobacco control based on COP9 tweets using machine learning techniques by Sherif Elmitwalli, John Mehegan, Georgie Wellock, Allen Gallagher, Anna Gilmore

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World Health Organization MPOWER for tobacco control in India: a 6-year retrospective analysis by Ravneet Malhi, Gitanjali Mago, Puneet Sharma, Ramandeep Singh Gambhir, Amit Aggarwal, Anupreet Paul

“…This analysis was based on the checklist which was designed previously by Iranian and international tobacco control specialists in their study on tobacco control. …”
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Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program by Abadie, Alberto, Diamond, Alexis, Hainmueller, Jens

“…We discuss the advantages of these methods and apply them to study the ef- fects of Proposition 99, a large-scale tobacco control program that California implemented in 1988. …”
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Stakeholders' opinions about a tobacco policy in Lao PDR by Tanja Tomson, Kongsap Akkhavong, Hans Gilljam

Subjects: “…tobacco control…”
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Citizen Oversight Groups (Veedurías), a suitable instrument to advance in the tobacco control agenda, the Colombian experience by Liliana Andrea Avila Garcia, Edwin Baron, Blanca Llorente, Angelica María Claro, Jaime Hernan Arcila

“…Veedurías are a suitable instrument to address transparency issues, which is at the core of the challenges to advance in the tobacco control agenda in any country. Intervention or response Veeduría for Tobacco Control-(VCCT) uses this surveillance tool to promote the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control(FCTC), VCCT benefits from a multidisciplinary, multi-actor approach, advocating for: Acknowledgement of human, health, social and economic costs of tobacco consumption. …”
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Mapping tobacco control use through the Eurobarometer surveys: Available smoking-related indicators over time by Ayaka Teshima, Cristina Martinez, Constantine I. Vardavas, Filippos T. Filippidis, Esteve Fernandez

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Reduction of tobacco consumption in a rural area with a community based tobacco control program in Bangladesh by Jasimuddin Ahmed, Sohel Reza Choudhury, Mostafa Zaman

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Egoistic and altruistic behaviors in tobacco control campaign: the role of social media exposure, interpersonal communication and attitudes by Shiyu Liu, Qiaofei Wu, Xinyuan Luo, Yu Chen, Jing Xu

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System level approaches for mainstreaming tobacco control into existing health programs in India: Perspectives from the field by Rajmohan Panda, Swati Srivastava, Divya Persai, Emily Mendenhall, Monika Arora, Manu Raj Mathur

“…The national program for tobacco control is run like a vertical stand-alone program. …”
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The associations between the credibility of the tobacco control regulatory body and smoking behavior change among Saudi smokers by Abdullah M. Alanazi, Sarah S. Monshi, Nada A. Alfahadi, Sadeem S. Alsayari, Foton S. Alkhonain, Norah M. Alsulami, Tareq F. Alotaibi, Saleh S. Algarni, Hassan Y. Abunurah, Abdulmohsen H. Al-Zalabani, Taha T. Ismaeil

“…Introduction Recently, Saudi Arabia has extensively reformed its tobacco control policies and extended its smoking cessation services. …”
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Receiving and giving electronic cigarettes as gifts in China: Findings from International Tobacco Control China Survey by Joanne Chen Lyu, Hai-Yen Sung, Tingting Yao, Anne C.K. Quah, Yuan Jiang, Geoffrey T. Fong, Wendy Max

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Changing Behaviour: Blindness to Risk and a Critique of Tobacco Control Policy in China—A Qualitative Study by Tong Pei, Tingzhong Yang

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Scientists, NGOs and media need to cooperate to enforce tobacco control: Lessons learned by failure and success in Austria by Manfred Neuberger, Kurt Aigner

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Defining indicators for the scoping stage of health impact assessment to evaluate tobacco control policy in the city of Beijing by Yunting Zheng, Yuhui Shi, Ying Ji, Xiurong Liu, Haoxiang Lin, Meijun Chen, Qingping Yun, Chun Chang

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Evidence-based core information for health communication of tobacco control: The effect of smoking on risks of female disease by Jin Liu, Yun-Yi Hao, Hui-Jia Mao, Xiang-Ju Sun, Xiao-Lu Huang, Chen-Xin Quan, Mei-Ling Cao, Shu-Ting Wei, Xue-Zheng Jin, Yi-Bo Wu

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Street-level bureaucracy in tobacco control: A qualitative study of health department in district Jalandhar, Punjab by Shaveta Menon

“…Background: The implementers of the tobacco control policy in the field have been neglected by the policymakers. …”
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Policy Processes in Multisectoral Tobacco Control in India: The Role of Institutional Architecture, Political Engagement and Legal Interventions by Shinjini Mondal, Sara Van Belle, Upendra Bhojani, Susan Law, Antonia Maioni

“…In this analysis of a multisectoral policy, the Tobacco Control Program in India, our objective was to understand the processes involved in policy formulation and adoption, describing context, enablers, and key drivers, as well as highlight the challenges of policy. …”
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Corrigendum: Modeling the future of tobacco control: Using SimSmoke to explore the feasibility of the tobacco endgame in Korea by Hana Kim <sup>+<sup>, Susan Park <sup>+<sup>, Heewon Kang, Naeun Kang, David T. Levy, Sung-il Cho

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