OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 32. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	267
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	83
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	69
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA	64
What happens in Vegas, stays in your lungs: an assessment of fine particulate matter in casinos that prohibit and allow smoking in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	63
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues	61
Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015–2019, USA	57
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	52
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	49
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	48
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	47
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	47
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	45
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	44
Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in t	43
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	43
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	43
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	41
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	41
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	40
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	40
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels	39
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	38
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	36
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	36

Historical and political context for Philip Morris International’s continuing medical education courses on harm reduction	35
Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda	34
“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	33
Economic cost of cigarette smoking in China: a propensity score matching and DALY-based analysis (2014–2020)	33
Evolution of tobacco products: recent history and future directions	33
Price elasticity of cigarette smoking in Bangladesh: evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Surveys (GATS)	33
Early evidence of the associations between an anti-e-cigarette mass media campaign and e-cigarette knowledge and attitudes: results from a cross-sectional study of youth and young adults	32