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 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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Israel T Agaku, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA; iagaku{at}post.harvard.edu ...

Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to George Thomson, University of Otago, Box 7343, Wellington South, Wellington 6002, New Zealand; ...

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

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act provided the US Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products using a population health standard. Models have been developed ...

Objectives To estimate the attributable mortality to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure among the population aged 35 years and older in Brazil and its 27 federal units in 2019. Study design ...

Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Correspondence to Dr David Méndez, Department of Health Management and Policy, ...

Background Nicotine pouches (NPs) are one of the fastest growing tobacco product categories in the United States (US). We ...

Correspondence to Dr Alan D Lopez, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Dr. Lopez was affiliated with IHME and HMS when this work was undertaken; ...

Background The Aotearoa/New Zealand Government is aiming to end the tobacco epidemic and markedly reduce Māori:non-Māori health inequalities by legislating: (1) denicotinisation of retail tobacco, (2) ...