Public consultations are an increasingly common mechanism for informing health regulation, yet their vulnerability to automated interference remains undocumented. We examined bot activity within the ...

Objective To examine population level patterns of e-cigarette use between 2013–14 and 2022–23 by analysing trends in the ...

Background The effectiveness of excise taxes in reducing tobacco consumption depends on how fully tax increases are reflected ...

Background Adolescence is a critical period for tobacco initiation, and intention to use tobacco strongly predicts uptake. In Nigeria, adolescent tobacco use is a growing concern requiring early ...

Examining the nature of bot responses to public health consultations: the example of automated submissions to the 2023 UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill ...

Dr DR Longo, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, MA306 Medical Sciences Building, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA.DanL{at}fcm.missouri.edu ...

UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK ...

Background While assessing the lifetime cost of smoking is critical for evaluating tobacco control policies, the available ...

Background Aldehydes are common e-liquid flavourants that undergo chemical reactions with the e-liquid solvents propylene glycol (PG) and glycerol (G) to form acetals. Some flavour aldehyde PG acetals ...

Objective To systematically review the instrumental and discursive barriers and facilitators that have influenced standardised packaging (SP) policies for tobacco, emphasising contextual, ...

Background The tobacco industry (TI) is a globalised enterprise whose interference activities transcend national borders, undermining tobacco control policies and implementation of the WHO Framework ...

Background E-cigarettes pose health risks and no established benefits to people who have never used tobacco. Australia introduced legislation in 2021, which was strengthened in 2024, to limit ...