Introduction Despite its known health risks, the tobacco epidemic is evolving as waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) in Africa ...

Objective To estimate the impact of standardising the colour and branding of disposable vaping devices on young people’s interest in trying them. Design, setting and participants Data were from ...

Correspondence to Andrew Waa, Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington 6242, New Zealand; Andrew.waa{at}otago.ac.nz Thompson et al 5 draw our attention to how the tobacco industry is ...

Objective To document the key barriers and facilitators to implementing a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control-guided tobacco control law in Mexico. Methods We analysed public submissions to ...

Introduction Tobacco control policies focused on the retail environment have the potential to reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related health disparities through increasing direct and indirect costs.

Background The Mongolian government increased import tobacco tax by 30% in May 2017 and excise tobacco tax by 10% in January 2018. To assess the impact of these tax increases on illicit cigarette ...

Background Tobacco control investment cases analyse the health and socioeconomic costs of tobacco use and the benefits that can be achieved from implementing measures outlined in the WHO Framework ...

Introduction Mexico was the first Latin American country to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2004, after which it implemented some key FCTC policies (e.g., taxes, ...

Background The lack of reliable tobacco healthcare and economic cost estimates leaves the tobacco industry undertaxed and thriving in Pakistan and makes the country as one of the top tobacco-consuming ...

B Freeman, 129A School of Public Health (A27), University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; bfreeman{at}health.usyd.edu.au Background: The international trend towards comprehensive bans on ...

Objective: To study the incidence of conversion to tobacco dependence (TD) and the prevalence of the TD state in relation to several potential determinants in a sample of adolescent smokers. Methods: ...