Substantial increases in vaping among young people in recent years is of great concern, and governments around the world have implemented a range of policies and programmes to discourage uptake of ...

Objective Previous research has identified that transnational tobacco companies lack transparency and that they hide their harms to health and nature behind environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Objective In 2018, the Chinese tobacco industry initiated the nationwide ‘civilised smoking environment’ campaign via a 5-year action plan. The goal of this study was to analyse content of reports ...

Objectives In the USA, some tobacco companies replaced the marketing phrase ‘100% natural additive-free tobacco’ with ‘tobacco ingredients: tobacco & water’ (T&W) after receiving warnings from the US ...

Philip Morris International’s (PMI) website stated they support ‘independent’ continuing medical education courses on harm ...

Tobacco use is linked to increased cancer risk, and people who smoke represent a large proportion of newly diagnosed patients with cancer. The fact that smoking cessation at the time of diagnosis can ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China 2 ...

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 ...

aPublic Health Sciences, Department of Community Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK, bNational Institute of Public Health, Sweden, cPresident ...

Objectives: Because no prior studies have comprehensively analysed previously secret tobacco industry documents describing marketing female brands, the Virginia Slims brand was studied to explore how ...