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 ...
Methods Individuals who smoke cigarettes exclusively (n=25) and individuals who smoke cigarettes and use NVP (n=28) completed purchasing trials in a within-subject design. Alternative product prices ...
A richer understanding of the ethical basis for ending the tobacco epidemic has the potential to strengthen the case for change. This paper first addresses the way that the two key moral goods of well ...
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 ...
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 ...
Background The effectiveness of excise taxes in reducing tobacco consumption depends on how fully tax increases are reflected in retail prices. When tobacco companies absorb part of these increases, ...
Objectives To assess trends in cigarette sales and prices and estimate price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in the WHO regions. Methods Cigarette sales data (2008–2022) for 98 countries (88.7% of ...
Some multinational tobacco companies claim they are ‘transforming’ by adopting harm reduction goals or, in the case of Philip Morris International (PMI), declaring a commitment to a ‘smoke-free’ ...
Background Hand-rolling tobacco (HRT) remains more affordable than factory-made (FM) cigarettes in the UK, which could undermine the health benefits of tobacco tax increases. This study modelled ...
Background Philip Morris International’s (PMI) heated tobacco brand IQOS has long been advertised as a fashionable lifestyle product and as a supposedly safer alternative to cigarettes. PMI’s new ...
Objective We set out to systematically review and synthesise the existing evidence regarding key factors that influence the development of tobacco control policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Data ...
Background In 2014, the Philippines implemented Republic Act 10643, or the Graphic Health Warnings (GHW) Law, in alignment with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 11, aimed at ...