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Objectives To assess trends in cigarette sales and prices and estimate price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in the WHO ...
Introduction Packaging is a key marketing tool for tobacco companies and an important means of communicating product-related ...
Introduction The aim of standardised tobacco packaging is to discourage uptake, encourage cessation, help people who previously smoked avoid relapse and reduce exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.
Objective Longitudinal data from three UK birth cohorts (born in 1958, 1970 and 2001) were used to (1) document the historic decline in adolescent cigarette smoking; (2) examine how e-cigarette use is ...
Tobacco branding has long been a part of auto racing in the USA and abroad.1–3 Various cigarette and smokeless tobacco brands like Winston and Skoal have featured race drivers in their advertisements ...
The introduction of a new product line of the popular disposable electronic cigarette brand Puffbar, advertised as containing synthetic nicotine, has drawn attention to the increasing use of synthetic ...
The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation. Most of the richer countries of the globe, however, are making progress in reducing both smoking rates and overall ...
Objective To assess the awareness and prevalence of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and associated factors among Chinese adults (15 years and older). Method This study examined data from Global ...
Background Tobacco-related illnesses are leading causes of death and healthcare use. Our objective was to determine whether implementation of a hospital-initiated smoking cessation intervention would ...
Objective This review summarises the impact of mass media campaigns on promoting quitting among adult smokers overall and for subgroups; the influence of campaign intensity and different channels; the ...
This past summer Florida's Department of Health released the findings of its annual statewide survey on youth tobacco use. The study found that since 1998 the percentage of youth using tobacco in the ...
Preventing initiation of tobacco product use, promoting cessation of tobacco use, and protecting the public from exposure to second hand smoke are recognised by the World Health organization (WHO) ...