Gao, Wayne Sanna, Mattia Chuluunbaatar, Enkhzaya Tsai, Min-Kuang Levy, David T Wen, Chi Pang
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Tobacco control
In Taiwan, national tobacco use surveys show that e-cigarette use has increased since 2014 among youth, while, at the same time, conventional cigarette smoking has continuously decreased. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the increased popularity of e-cigarettes has undermined this favourable declining trend for cigarette smoking. We ...
Eissenberg, Thomas Soule, Eric Shihadeh, Alan
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Tobacco control
Krüsemann, Erna J Z Havermans, Anne Pennings, Jeroen L A de Graaf, Kees Boesveldt, Sanne Talhout, Reinskje
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Tobacco control
Flavours increase e-cigarette attractiveness and use and thereby exposure to potentially toxic ingredients. An overview of e-liquid ingredients is needed to select target ingredients for chemical analytical and toxicological research and for regulatory approaches aimed at reducing e-cigarette attractiveness. Using information from e-cigarette manuf...
Jun, Jungmi Kim, Joon Kyoung
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Tobacco control
We examine the association among five types of state regulations on electronic cigarettes (defining e-cigarettes, special tax, packaging, youth access and licensure) and initiation and current usage of e-cigarettes in 50 US states and the District of Columbia. Data came from the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the US e-cigarette...
John, Rijo M Dauchy, Estelle
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Tobacco control
To estimate the trends in affordability of bidis, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (SLT) in India and examine the impact of transition from the earlier indirect taxation system to the new goods and services tax (GST) on the affordability. Retail price data and per-capita gross domestic product data were used to examine the trends in affordability o...
Kim, Yoonsang Emery, Sherry L Vera, Lisa David, Bryn Huang, Jidong
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Tobacco control
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are the most-used tobacco product by adolescents, and Juul has rapidly become the most popular ENDS brand. Evidence indicates that Juul has been marketed heavily on social media. In light of recent lawsuits against the FDA spurred by claims that the agency responded inadequately to this marketing push, me...
Schiff, Sara Liu, Fei Cruz, Tess Boley Unger, Jennifer B Cwalina, Sam Leventhal, Adam McConnell, Rob Barrington-Trimis, Jessica
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Tobacco control
Tobacco 21 (T21) laws, which raise the minimum legal age of sale of tobacco products to 21, have been proposed and implemented in states and cities across the USA. However, limited data are available on the effect of T21 laws on youth tobacco purchasing behaviours and access to tobacco products. Participants in a population-based prospective cohort...
Shortt, Niamh K Tunstall, Helena Mitchell, Richard Coombes, Emma Jones, Andy Reid, Garth Pearce, Jamie
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Tobacco control
To assess the geographical variation in tobacco price (cigarettes and roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco) in convenience stores across Scotland and how this relates to neighbourhood income deprivation, tobacco retail outlet density and urban/rural status. Tobacco price data from 124 566 shopping baskets purchased in 274 convenience stores during 1 week in...
Siripongvutikorn, Yanakawee Tabuchi, Takahiro Okawa, Sumiyo
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Tobacco control
Heated tobacco products (HTPs) and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are rapidly gaining popularity, especially in Japan. However, at the time of the survey (2018), there was no national legislation banning HTPs or e-cigarette use in the workplace. The objective is to examine the current situation for workplace smoke-free policies which ban the ...
Shahab, Lion Beard, Emma Brown, Jamie
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Tobacco control
This study assessed whether initiating e-cigarette use increases the uptake of cigarette smoking in US adolescents compared with behavioural and synthetic controls. Data come from 78 265 adolescents in the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2014-2017) of whom 38 630 provided information about the first tobacco product they had used in 2014/15. Ever, pa...
