Background Sub-ohm electronic cigarettes (ECIG) operate at higher power levels than their counterparts, leading to greater ...

Public consultations are an increasingly common mechanism for informing health regulation, yet their vulnerability to automated interference remains undocumented. We examined bot activity within the ...

Objective To examine population level patterns of e-cigarette use between 2013–14 and 2022–23 by analysing trends in the ...

Background While assessing the lifetime cost of smoking is critical for evaluating tobacco control policies, the available ...

Background Illicit tobacco weakens incentives to quit smoking, facilitates uptake among young people and undermines public ...

Background The effectiveness of excise taxes in reducing tobacco consumption depends on how fully tax increases are reflected ...

Examining the nature of bot responses to public health consultations: the example of automated submissions to the 2023 UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill ...

Dr DR Longo, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, MA306 Medical Sciences Building, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA.DanL{at}fcm.missouri.edu ...

Introduction In 2006, a federal US court found several major tobacco companies guilty of violating civil racketeering laws for deceiving the public about the harms of cigarettes. After 16 years of ...

Objectives In the USA, every state imposes an excise tax for cigarettes, and virtually all states require tax stamps. Because cigarette taxes vary widely, traffickers smuggle cigarettes from states ...

Background Flavoured e-cigarettes are attractive to youth, and flavour descriptors on packaging can increase product appeal and reduce perceived risk. In October 2022, China banned ...

Background Tobacco control is beginning to pay attention to additives and flavours in tobacco products but less so to the tobacco leaf itself. Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) leaf increases dependence on ...