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 ...

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 Sub-ohm electronic cigarettes (ECIG) operate at higher power levels than their counterparts, leading to greater ...

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

Background Illicit tobacco weakens incentives to quit smoking, facilitates uptake among young people and undermines public ...

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 ZYN is the leading nicotine pouch brand and a predominant driver of nicotine pouch advertising. In November 2022, Philip Morris International (PMI) acquired Swedish Match, the manufacturer ...

Background On 16 January 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised marketing of 20 Zyn oral nicotine pouch products, the first US authorisation of this category. Public ...