Background To control the illicit cigarette market, the government of Pakistan adopted a Tracking and Tracing System (TTS) that was fully operational by July 2022, despite many roadblocks. By this ...

Correspondence to Dr Yongda Wu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, Hong Kong; yongdang{at}connect.hku.hk Objectives To examine the trends in the prevalence of hardening indicators and ...

Objective The USA is considering a very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarette standard. We sought to characterise the prevalence and correlates of the incorrect belief that VLNC cigarettes are less ...

Correspondence to Dr Prue Talbot, Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; talbot{at}ucr.edu Objective To evaluate performance of the I ...

Significant achievements in the area of tobacco control have been made in the kingdom of Bhutan in the Eastern Himalayas, following the initiation of several tobacco control activities ...

In the face of increasing media restrictions around the world, point-of-purchase promotion (also called point-of-sale merchandising, and frequently abbreviated as POP or POS) is now one of the most ...

Correspondence to Dr Arpit Gupta, Unit of Public Health Dentistry, Oral Health Sciences Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh - 160012, India; ...

Objective: To assess if the effect of a single treatment episode with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) enhances smoking cessation over many years. Data sources: Meta-analysis of all randomised ...

3 Center for Health Research, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest, Portland, Oregon, USA 4 Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention of the Oregon Division of Health, ...

The issues related to tobacco harm reduction continue to challenge the tobacco control research and policy communities. The potential for combusting tobacco products to reduce exposure and risk ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Popova, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA; lpopova1{at}gsu.edu Objective In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew A Strasser, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA; strasse3{at}mail.med.upenn.edu Objective The nine pictorial health ...