Background Socioeconomic differentials of tobacco smoking in high-income countries are well described. However, studies to support health policies and place monitoring systems to tackle socioeconomic ...

Background The price of tobacco products in relation to the income of tobacco users—affordability—is recognised as a key determinant of tobacco use behaviour. The effectiveness of a price increase as ...

Spree Bar–an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) product containing the synthetic nicotine analogue, 6-methyl-nicotine–appeared on the market.1 Spree Bar marketing claims the product is exempt from the ...

Mainstream economic theory outlines four main causes of market failure and it is already well established that two of these (information failure and externalities) exist in a tobacco market. A third ...

Correspondence to Professor Coral E Gartner, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia; c.gartner{at}uq.edu.au Objective We synthesised ...

Background In lower-income and middle-income countries, limited research exists on illicit tobacco trade and its responsiveness to taxation. Tobacco taxes are critical in reducing tobacco consumption, ...

Correspondence to Dr Ce Shang, Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA; cshang{at}uic.edu Background Recent studies ...

9 Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Largo Francesco Vito, Roma, Italy Objective To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes, by comparing users of ...

In recent years, a new tobacco ‘endgame’ has been proposed: the denial of tobacco sale to any citizen born after a certain year, thus creating new tobacco-free generations. The proposal would not ...

1 Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia 2 Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control, Curtin University, Western Australia For ...

1 Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA 2 Tobacco Dependence Research Unit, Queen Mary University ...

Correspondence to Dr Terry Frank Pechacek, School of Public Health, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, Georgia State University, Urban Life Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA; ...