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Patterns of birth cohort-specific smoking histories in Japan, 1910–2050: a shift towards younger people?
Background To identify important parameters for targeted smoking intervention strategies, we examined smoking initiation, ...
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IQOS—marketing a tobacco product in the UK | Tobacco Control
IQOS is the most popular heated tobacco product (HTP) worldwide, marketed by the world’s largest transnational tobacco company, Philip Morris International (PMI).1 HTPs comprise two components: an ...
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Euromonitor data on the illicit trade in cigarettes - Tobacco Control
Euromonitor International is a well-known proprietary data source whose data regarding the global tobacco control community are available for purchase. Euromonitor presents country level data on most ...
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E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts | Tobacco Control
Objective Using longitudinal data from two large-scale cohorts in the UK and USA, we examine whether e-cigarette use steers adolescent early smokers away from tobacco cigarettes (disruption hypothesis ...
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Noticing people, discounts and non-tobacco flavours in e-cigarette ads may increase e-cigarette product appeal among non-tobacco-using young adults | Tobacco Control
Introduction Young adults new to tobacco (including e-cigarettes) are at an increased risk of e-cigarette use after e-cigarette exposure. This study examined the association between noticing ...
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Impact of electronic cigarette and heated tobacco product on conventional smoking: an Italian prospective cohort study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic
Objective Debate continues about whether electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and heated tobacco products (HTP) reduce or increase the probability of smoking, with many studies compromised by stated ...
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Menthol e-cigarette sales rise following 2020 FDA guidance
Objective To explore patterns in flavoured e-cigarette sales following Juul Labs’ 2019 removal of mint-flavoured products and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2020 e-cigarette flavour guidance ...
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IQOS marketing strategies in the USA before and after US FDA modified risk tobacco product authorisation
Introduction Given that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised reduced exposure messaging to be used in IQOS marketing, we examined: (1) IQOS ad content; (2) advertising media channels ...
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Is tobacco a driver of footfall among small retailers? A geographical analysis of tobacco purchasing using electronic point of sale data | Tobacco Control
Objective Opponents of policies designed to reduce tobacco retail availability argue that tobacco products are a vital driver of ‘footfall’ in small retailers. This study considers the changing ...
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Understanding why some Australian retailers have stopped selling tobacco, some might and some are unlikely
Background Widespread availability of tobacco has been shown to contribute to ongoing smoking and make quitting harder. This study investigates why some retailers in three Australian states decided to ...
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Case for raising the minimum legal age of tobacco sale to 25
Restricting youth access to tobacco is an essential component of a comprehensive tobacco control policy. While there has been a growing movement to raise the minimum legal age (MLA) of purchasing ...
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FDA’s reduced exposure marketing order for IQOS: why it is not a reliable global model - Tobacco Control
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued orders in July 2020 authorising Philip Morris Products S.A. to market its heated tobacco product (HTP) IQOS inside the USA with claims that it reduces ...