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Background The prevalence of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults has increased markedly in recent years; however, little is known about young people’s perceptions of e-cigarette addiction.
Introduction Bangladesh’s cigarette smoking prevalence remained unchanged (around 14%) between 2009 and 2017. Through tax evasion and regulatory non-compliance, illicit trade might have contributed to ...
Background Cigarette smoking is associated with adverse health outcomes in people with and without disabilities. However, little is known about disability prevalence among people who smoke. The ...
Background Gender norms are known to influence smoking behaviours, but studies evaluating tobacco control policies frequently overlook these factors by relying on gender-blind methodologies. The ...
Background China is the country with the highest burden of tobacco-caused disease. We characterised the extent to which cigarette pack marketing features (eg, imagery, text, pack color) could ...
Background North Korea has taken steps to reduce smoking prevalence and its associated health risks by implementing the ...
1 Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Biostatistics Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, ...
Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, National Institute of Public Health, 25 Svanemøllevej, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmarkhbh{at}niph.dk OBJECTIVE To estimate health expectancy— that is, the average lifetime in good ...
Background Adolescents’ support for the regulation of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has been documented to be ...
Study objectives To compare the prices paid for nicotine vaping products (NVPs) and supplies among current NVP users to prices paid for cigarettes among current smokers. Data The 2016 International ...