Objectives China, the leading global tobacco producer and consumer with 300 million smokers (50.5% male prevalence) and over ...

Introduction Cigarette smoking continues to exert a major impact on morbidity and mortality. We aim to provide robust ...

Background Illicit trade in cigarettes undermines the public health and fiscal objectives of tobacco taxation. In South ...

Background Tobacco taxation is a proven strategy to reduce cigarette consumption, but its impact may be reduced by industry pricing tactics. Relatively few studies have examined the extent to which ...

Objectives: To examine the complicity of British American Tobacco (BAT) in cigarette smuggling in Asia, and to assess the centrality of illicit trade to regional corporate strategy. Methods: Analysis ...

Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Methods: Between November 2001 and March 2007, tobacco advertisements were collected ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Sherry McKee, Yale University School of Medicine, 2 Church St. South, Suite 109, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; sherry.mckee{at}yale.edu Objectives Those with any psychiatric diagnosis ...

Background E-cigarettes are the most popular nicotine product among youth in the USA and the majority of young people use products with flavours such as mint, menthol, fruit and candy. Between ...

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1 Department of Preventive Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 3 Department of ...