Background: Smoking is one of the biggest avoidable causes of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. This paper quantifies the current health and economic burden of smoking in the UK. It ...

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 ...

The tobacco-free generation proposal advocates legislation precluding the sale and supply of tobacco to individuals born after a certain year. The measure is aimed at overcoming defects with current ...

Correspondence to Dr Crawford Moodie, Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK; c.s.moodie{at}stir.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Ms Michelle Duren, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; mduren3{at}jhmi.edu Introduction Nicotine ...

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Data sources: Medical, nursing, psychological, social science and grey literature databases, bibliographies, hand-searches ...

Objective This study aimed to explore tobacco smoking in seven major cities of Latin America. Methods The Cardiovascular Risk Factor Multiple Evaluation in Latin America (CARMELA) study is a ...

Since its origins in the 1960s, tobacco control has achieved remarkable success against the scourge of tobacco-produced disease and death. Yet tobacco use, especially cigarette smoking, remains the ...

The World No Tobacco Day 2022 theme emphasised tobacco’s adverse environmental effects, including through agriculture, manufacturing, distribution, use and the disposal of tobacco product waste. A ...

Background Tobacco control is beginning to pay attention to additives and flavours in tobacco products but less so to the tobacco leaf itself. Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) leaf increases dependence on ...

Trends in noticing and responses to cigarette and heated tobacco product warnings among Koreans who use tobacco: findings from the 2020–2023 ITC Korea Surveys ...

Discarded cigarette butts may present health risks to human infants and animals because of indiscriminate eating behaviours. Nicotine found in cigarette butts may cause vomiting and neurological ...