Correspondence to Hana Ross, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; hzarub1{at}yahoo.com Background In anticipation of the Protocol to ...

Correspondence to Dr Julia Vassey, Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; vassey{at}usc.edu Background Exposure to visual posts featuring ...

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 ...

3 Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Dr John P Pierce, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer ...

Introduction The tobacco industry uses package colour to convey product attributes, which can impact consumers’ perceptions ...

Background As smoking prevalence declines, it is important to understand whether those who continue to smoke soften or harden (become more or less amenable to quitting, respectively) to inform the ...

2 Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4 ...

Objective The merging of US smokeless tobacco (SLT) and cigarette industries in the early 2000s was highly predictable based ...

Objective: Past studies have produced ambiguous or inconsistent results when testing whether smokers actually underestimate their own risks of experiencing tobacco related illness. Whereas smokers ...

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 ...

Background On 1 January 2021, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, became the first cities in the USA to ban ...

Background Standardised packaging for factory-made cigarettes (FM) and roll-your-own tobacco (RYO), and a minimum excise tax (MET) were fully implemented in the UK in May 2017 following a 12-month ...