Background Hong Kong has one of the lowest smoking prevalence both within China and among high-income economies. As tobacco ...

Background Recently, the US Institute of Medicine has proposed that raising the minimum age for tobacco purchasing/sales to 21 years would likely lead to reductions in smoking behavior among young ...

Association of food insecurity with the use of tobacco products and urine cotinine-measured smoking intensity: evidence from a population-based study in South Korea, 2019–2021 ...

Introduction 30 states enacted e-cigarette taxes by the end of 2023. E-cigarette tax schema in the USA vary, in contrast to cigarette taxes that are standardised as an excise tax amount per pack. Some ...

Correspondence to Dr Matthew E Rossheim, Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax VA 22030, USA; mrosshei{at}gmu.edu Background Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) ...

Correspondence to Erikas Simonavicius, Department of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London SE5 8BB, UK; erikas.simonavicius{at}kcl.ac.uk ...

Background It has been established that mass media campaigns can increase smoking cessation rates, but there is little direct evidence estimating associations between government expenditure on tobacco ...

1 Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Social & Community Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland 3 ...

Objectives To estimate the risk of dying from all causes and from specified smoking-related diseases in men who were exclusive daily pipe smokers at two consecutive examinations, and in men who ...

Objective: To estimate the tobacco-attributable costs of diseases separately for smoked and smokeless tobacco use in India. Methods: The prevalence-based attributable-risk approach was used to ...

Background The Healthy China 2030 strategy sets ambitious targets for China’s policy-makers, including a decrease in the smoking rate from 27.7% in 2015 to 20% by 2030. China has made progress on ...

Objective To explore what is known about the tobacco industry’s (TI) price-based responses to tobacco excise tax policies and whether these vary by country income group using a systematic review. Data ...