A study of pyrazines in cigarettes and how additives might be …
WEBBackground Nicotine is known as the drug that is responsible for the addicted behaviour of tobacco users, but it has poor reinforcing effects when administered alone. Tobacco product design features enhance abuse liability by (A) optimising the dynamic delivery of nicotine to central nervous system receptors, and affecting smokers’ withdrawal symptoms, mood …
Prohibition no, abolition yes! Rethinking how we talk about …
WEBAs public health advocates struggle over how best to end the cigarette epidemic, one persistent obstacle to developing appropriate policies has been the lingering spectre of ‘prohibition’. A misunderstanding of the USA’s experience with the national ban on sales of alcohol more than a century ago has led even public health advocates to claim that we …
The history of the discovery of the cigarette–lung cancer link ...
WEBLung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanisation and mass marketing towards the end of the 19th century popularised the cigarette habit, however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic. Cigarettes were recognised as the cause of the …
WEBProgress: a slow burner. The marketing literature, academic research and tobacco industry internal documents and external communications highlight the promotional power of the packaging.1–3 While packaging has been a cornerstone of tobacco marketing since the 19th century, governments were slow to appreciate its value.
Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half …
WEBBackground Despite compelling evidence on the health hazards of tobacco products accumulated over the past 70 years, smoking remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Policy action to control smoking requires timely, comprehensive, and comparable evidence on smoking levels within and across countries. This study provides a recent assessment …
Differential price responses for tobacco consumption: implications …
WEBIncreasing tobacco taxes is considered the most effective an cost-effective policy to reduce tobacco consumption. However, a common objection to tobacco taxes is that they tend to rely disproportionately on the poorest individuals since less affluent smokers incur proportionately greater expenditures on cigarettes compared with more affluent …
Smoking cessation: health system challenges and opportunities
WEBSmoking cessation in primary care and general practice settings. Numerous international clinical practice guidelines have identified primary- care settings as important sites for cessation assistance.2 67–72 The rates at which simple advice to quit smoking is delivered by primary-care practitioners vary widely.73–75 75 76 The rates at which actual …
Tobacco control and the climate emergency
WEBIn November 2021, Tobacco Control joined more than 200 health journals in urging governments to take immediate action to halt the destruction of the natural world caused by fossil fuel dependency. The climate crisis we face means that ‘governments must make fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organised and how we …
Evolution of tobacco products: recent history and future directions
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Declines in cigarette smoking prevalence in many countries and the consolidation of the tobacco industry have prompted the introduction of other forms of nicotine delivery. These include electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), heated tobacco products (HTPs) and oral nicotine products (ONPs). Evolving over time, some …
WEBJan 9, 2022 · A 10% increase in the price of cigarettes would decrease consumption by 7.7% (4.5%) for young (old) individuals. Second, using the estimated elasticities, we analyse their implications for the distributional incidence of increasing tobacco taxes. Specifically, we simulate the change in tobacco expenditures against a tax hike by …