Tobacco Control

Article	Citations
Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action	168
Nicotine delivery and cigarette equivalents from vaping a JUULpod	81
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on smoking consumption in a large representative sample of Italian adults	72
Synthetic nicotine has arrived	57
E-cigarette brands and social media influencers on Instagram: a social network analysis	53
Vaping on TikTok: a systematic thematic analysis	52
Effectiveness of e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation: evidence from the PATH Study cohort, 2017–2019	51
Electrical features, liquid composition and toxicant emissions from ‘pod-mod’-like disposable electronic cigarettes	48
Evaluating the impact of menthol cigarette bans on cessation and smoking behaviours in Canada: longitudinal findings from the Canadian arm of the 2016–2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys	45
Evolution of tobacco products: recent history and future directions	43
Tobacco promotion restriction policies on social media	42
Moving targets: how the rapidly changing tobacco and nicotine landscape creates advertising and promotion policy challenges	42
Prevalence of heated tobacco product use in Japan: the 2020 JASTIS study	40
Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review	39
Flavour chemicals, synthetic coolants and pulegone in popular mint-flavoured and menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes	39
Public health impact of a US ban on menthol in cigarettes and cigars: a simulation study	38
Exploring the gateway hypothesis of e-cigarettes and tobacco: a prospective replication study among adolescents in the Netherlands and Flanders	37
Transitions between cigarette, ENDS and dual use in adults in the PATH study (waves 1–4): multistate transition modelling accounting for complex survey design	37
Ice flavours and non-menthol synthetic cooling agents in e-cigarette products: a review	36
Plain tobacco packaging: progress, challenges, learning and opportunities	36
Effect of a ‘tobacco-free nicotine’ claim on intentions and perceptions of Puff Bar e-cigarette use among non-tobacco-using young adults	35
Associations of tobacco retailer density and proximity with adult tobacco use behaviours and health outcomes: a meta-analysis	35
Trends in e-cigarette brands, devices and the nicotine profile of products used by youth in England, Canada and the USA: 2017–2019	35
Youth and young adult risk perceptions and behaviours in response to an outbreak of e-cigarette/vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI) in the USA	34
An estimation of the harm of menthol cigarettes in the United States from 1980 to 2018	33

Oral nicotine marketing claims in direct-mail advertising	33
Global tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship regulation: what’s old, what’s new and where to next?	33
Flavoured tobacco product restrictions in Massachusetts associated with reductions in adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use	32
Implementation of a comprehensive flavoured tobacco product sales restriction and retail tobacco sales	30
Smoking cessation: health system challenges and opportunities	30
Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications	30
Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori:non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan	28
Retail endgame strategies: reduce tobacco availability and visibility and promote health equity	27
Awareness and prevalence of e-cigarette use among Chinese adults: policy implications	27
‘Ice’ flavoured e-cigarette use among young adults	26
IQOS marketing strategies in the USA before and after US FDA modified risk tobacco product authorisation	25
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	25
Smoke-free spaces: a decade of progress, a need for more?	25
Tobacco industry pricing strategies in response to excise tax policies: a systematic review	25
Consequences of a match made in hell: the harm caused by menthol smoking to the African American population over 1980–2018	24
Tobacco package health warnings: a global success story	23
Landscape of tobacco control in sub-Saharan Africa	23
Levels of nicotine and tobacco-specific nitrosamines in oral nicotine pouches	22
Tobacco retail availability and cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth and adults: a scoping review	22
Paying lip service to publication ethics: scientific publishing practices and the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World	22
Machine learning applications in tobacco research: a scoping review	21
Indicators of dependence and efforts to quit vaping and smoking among youth in Canada, England and the USA	21
Achievements, challenges, priorities and needs to address the current tobacco epidemic in Latin America	21
Nicotine pouch product awareness, interest and ever use among US adults who smoke, 2021	21
Bigger, stronger and cheaper: growth in e-cigarette market driven by disposable devices with more e-liquid, higher nicotine concentration and declining prices	21
Reactions to messages about smoking, vaping and COVID-19: two national experiments	21
Simulating the density reduction and equity impact of potential tobacco retail control policies	20
Comprehensive Dutch market data analysis shows that e-liquids with nicotine salts have both higher nicotine and flavour concentrations than those with free-base nicotine	20
Self-reported exposure of Indonesian adolescents to online and offline tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS)	20
Tobacco retail licencing systems in Europe	20
Evaluating tobacco industry ‘transformation’: a proposed rubric and analysis	19
Effects of modified risk tobacco product claims on consumer comprehension and risk perceptions of IQOS	19
The ‘filter fraud’ persists: the tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment	19
Optimising tobacco control campaigns within a changing media landscape and among priority populations	18
Flavour spectrum of the Puff family of disposable e-cigarettes	18
Flavour capsule cigarette use and perceptions: a systematic review	18
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	18
Nicotine dependence of cigarette and heated tobacco users in Japan, 2019: a cross-sectional analysis of the JASTIS Study	17
From social accessory to societal disapproval: smoking, social norms and tobacco endgames	17
The temporary ban on tobacco sales in South Africa: lessons for endgame strategies	17
What facilitates policy audacity in tobacco control? An analysis of approaches and supportive factors for innovation in seven countries	17
Successful countering of tobacco industry efforts to overturn Thailand's ENDS ban	17
E-cigarette-inclusive smoke-free policies, excise taxes, tobacco 21 and changes in youth e-cigarette use: 2017–2019	17
Perceived effectiveness of objective elements of vaping prevention messages among adolescents	17
Tobacco control in Asia-Pacific: wins, challenges and targets	17
Effect of a hypothetical modified risk tobacco product claim on heated tobacco product use intention and perceptions in young adults	16
Tobacco 21 adoption decreased sales of cigarette brands purchased by young people: a translation of population health survey data to gain insight into market data for policy analysis	16
Youth-appealing features in popular e-cigarette brand advertising in the USA after heightened scrutiny in 2018	16
The EVALI outbreak and tobacco sales in the USA, 2014–2020	16
Secondhand smoke exposure and oral cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16

Risk and safety profile of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS): an umbrella review to inform ENDS health communication strategies	16
Potential impact of eliminating illicit trade in cigarettes: a demand-side perspective	16
Tobacco farming: overcoming an understated impediment to comprehensive tobacco control	15
Cross-promotion of nicotine pouches by leading cigarette brands	15
'Menthol-Plus’: a major category of cigarette found among ‘concept’ descriptor cigarettes from Mexico	15
Standardising the measurement of e-cigarette taxes in the USA, 2010–2020	14
California’s tobacco 21 minimum sales age law and adolescents’ tobacco and nicotine use: differential associations among racial and ethnic groups	14
Attitudes of smokers towards tobacco control policies: findings from the Studying Tobacco users of Pakistan (STOP) survey	14
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	14
Impossible until implemented: New Zealand shows the way	14
Ethyl maltol, vanillin, corylone and other conventional confectionery-related flavour chemicals dominate in some e-cigarette liquids labelled ‘tobacco’ flavoured	14
European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD): current impact and future steps	13
Noticing people, discounts and non-tobacco flavours in e-cigarette ads may increase e-cigarette product appeal among non-tobacco-using young adults	13
Tobacco company agreements with tobacco retailers for price discounts and prime placement of products and advertising: a scoping review	13
Development of the UNC Perceived Message Effectiveness Scale for Youth	13
Heated tobacco product use and combustible cigarette smoking relapse/initiation among former/never smokers in Japan: the JASTIS 2019 study with 1-year follow-up	13
Nicotine pouch marketing strategies in the USA: an analysis of Zyn, On! and Velo	13
E-cigarette use and promotion by social media influencers during videogame play on Twitch	13
‘It brings light to what you really put into your body’: a focus group study of reactions to messages about nicotine reduction in cigarettes	13
Illicit trade in tobacco products: recent trends and coming challenges	13
Analysis of mainstream emissions, secondhand emissions and the environmental impact of IQOS waste: a systematic review on IQOS that accounts for data source	13
IQOS marketing strategies at point-of-sales: a cross-sectional survey with retailers	13
‘No-Barriers’ tobacco product? Selling smokeless tobacco to women, people of colour and the LGBTQ+ community in the USA	13
Use of heated tobacco products where their use is prohibited	12
Association of device type, flavours and vaping behaviour with tobacco product transitions among adult electronic cigarette users in the USA	12
‘They have a right to participate as a stakeholder’: Article 5.3 implementation and government interactions with the tobacco industry in Ethiopia	12
Natural American Spirit cigarettes are marketed as ‘made different’: the role of brand positioning and differentiation	12
Tobacco industry strategies for flavour capsule cigarettes: analysis of patents and internal industry documents	12
Changes in cigarillo availability following implementation of a local flavoured tobacco sales restriction	12
Profile of menthol cigarette smokers in the months following the removal of these products from the market: a cross-sectional population survey in England	12
Where next for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control?	12
Critical appraisal of interventional clinical trials assessing heated tobacco products: a systematic review	12
Cross-validation of four different survey methods used to estimate illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	12
Spinning a global web: tactics used by Big Tobacco to attract children at tobacco points-of-sale	11
Nicotine pouches: a summary of regulatory approaches across 67 countries	11
Heated tobacco products do not help smokers quit or prevent relapse: a longitudinal study in Japan	11
Brief report on IQOS point-of-sale marketing, promotion and pricing in IQOS retail partner stores in Atlanta, Georgia, USA	11
JUUL ‘new technology’ pods exhibit greater electrical power and nicotine output than previous devices	11
Classifying the comprehensiveness of flavoured tobacco sales restrictions: development and application of a tool to examine US state and local tobacco policies	11
Assessing toxicant emissions from e-liquids with DIY additives used in response to a potential flavour ban in e-cigarettes	11
Tobacco industry marketing adaptations to Singapore plain packaging	11
Over 1 year later: smokers’ EVALI awareness, knowledge and perceived impact on e-cigarette interest	11
The 2019 economic cost of smoking-attributable diseases in Indonesia	11
Sources of flavoured e-cigarettes among California youth and young adults: associations with local flavoured tobacco sales restrictions	11
Trends in public interest in shopping and point-of-sales of JUUL and Puff Bar 2019–2021	11
Institutional tensions, corporate social responsibility and district-level governance of tobacco industry interference: analysing challenges in local implementation of Article 5.3 measures in Karnatak	11
Still ‘Cool’: tobacco industry responds to state-wide menthol ban with synthetic coolants	11
Identifying best modelling practices for tobacco control policy simulations: a systematic review and a novel quality assessment framework	11
Changes in tobacco depictions after implementation of tobacco-free film and TV rules in Bollywood films in India: a trend analysis	10
Ignoring our elders: tobacco control’s forgotten health equity issue	10
Characteristics and changes over time of nicotine vaping products used by vapers in the 2016 and 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys	10
Understanding the long-term policy influence strategies of the tobacco industry: two contemporary case studies	10
The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council: Advocating for a menthol cigarette ban in San Francisco, California	10
Impact of the FDA flavour enforcement policy on flavoured electronic cigarette use behaviour changes	10
Own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for cigarettes and waterpipe tobacco in three Eastern Mediterranean countries: a volumetric choice experiment	10
Thoughts on neologisms and pleonasm in scientific discourse and tobacco control	10
FDA’s reduced exposure marketing order for IQOS: why it is not a reliable global model	10
Policy incoherence and tobacco control in Indonesia: an analysis of the national tobacco-related policy mix	10
Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda	10
Smoking behaviours and indoor air quality: a comparative analysis of smoking-permitted versus smoke-free homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh	10
Smoking-related cancer death among men and women in an ageing society (China 2020–2040): a population-based modelling study	10
Excise taxes and pricing activities of e-liquid products sold in online vape shops	10
Addressing lower-priced cigarette products through three-pronged comprehensive regulation on excise taxes, minimum price policies and restrictions on price promotions	10
Tobacco companies’ exploitation of loopholes in the EU ban on menthol cigarettes: a case study from Denmark	10
’A contradiction between our state and the tobacco company’: conflicts of interest and institutional constraints as barriers to implementing Article 5.3 in Bangladesh	10
Evaluating the impact of plain packaging among Canadian smokers: findings from the 2018 and 2020 ITC Smoking and Vaping Surveys	10
Effectiveness of ENDS, NRT and medication for smoking cessation among cigarette-only users: a longitudinal analysis of PATH Study wave 3 (2015–2016) and 4 (2016–2017), adult data	10
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers	10
Marketing of flavour capsule cigarettes: a systematic review	9
Comparison of nicotine emissions rate, ‘nicotine flux’, from heated, electronic and combustible tobacco products: data, trends and recommendations for regulation	9
‘Give ‘em the vape, sell ‘em the pods’: razor-and-blades methods of pod e-cigarette pricing	9
Support for cigarette filter waste policies among US adults	9
Exclusive and dual use of electronic cigarettes among European youth in 32 countries with different regulatory landscapes	9
Trends in unit sales of cooling flavoured e-cigarettes, USA, 2017–2021	9
The changing retail landscape for tobacco: dollar stores and the availability of cheap cigarettes among tobacco-related priority populations	9
Trends in vaping and nicotine product use among youth in Canada, England and the USA between 2017 and 2022: evidence to inform policy	9
Systemic biomarkers of exposure associated with ENDS use: a scoping review	9
Applying topic modelling and qualitative content analysis to identify and characterise ENDS product promotion and sales on Instagram	9
Exploring the Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	9
Recent, national trends in US adolescent use of menthol and non-menthol cigarettes	9

Innovative promotional strategies and diversification of flavoured mass merchandise cigar products: a case study of Swedish match	9
Tobacco control in Europe: progress and key challenges	9
Impact of the European Union’s menthol cigarette ban on smoking cessation outcomes: longitudinal findings from the 2020–2021 ITC Netherlands Surveys	9
Illicit cigarette purchasing after implementation of menthol cigarette bans in Canada: findings from the 2016–2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys	9
Cigarette dependence is more prevalent and increasing among US adolescents and adults who use cannabis, 2002–2019	9
‘Beyond nicotine’ marketing strategies: Big Tobacco diversification into the vaping and cannabis product sectors	9
Understanding the dynamics of notification and implementation of Article 5.3 across India’s states and union territories	9
E-cigarette and tobacco product use among NYS youth before and after a state-wide vaping flavour restriction policy, 2020–2021	9
Impact of cigarette package warnings on attitudes towards sharing and gifting cigarettes in China: a nationwide study of smokers and non-smokers	9
Use of heated tobacco products in smoke-free locations in Japan: the JASTIS 2019 study	9
Tax incidence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the USA	9
Smoking and vaping among Canadian youth and adults in 2017 and 2019	8
PMI’s IQOS and cigarette ads in Israeli media: a content analysis across regulatory periods and target population subgroups	8
New tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean: assessing the market and regulatory environment	8
Tobacco endgame and priority populations: a scoping review	8
‘Flavour ban approved’: new marketing strategies from tobacco-free nicotine pouch maker Zyn	8
Second-hand smoke surveillance and COVID-19: a missed opportunity	8
Retailer experiences with tobacco sales bans: lessons from two early adopter jurisdictions	8
Association of cigarette production and tobacco retailer density on secondhand smoke exposure in urban China	8
Early adoption of heated tobacco products resembles that of e-cigarettes	8
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) flavours and devices used by adults before and after the 2020 US FDA ENDS enforcement priority: findings from the 2018 and 2020 US ITC Smoking and Vaping Su	8
Colours, capsules and concept flavour names on cigarette packs appeal to youth in Mexico	8
Undermining Australian controls on electronic nicotine delivery systems: illicit imports and illegal sales	8
Declines in cigarette smoking among US adolescents and young adults: indications of independence from e-cigarette vaping surge	8
Impact of electronic cigarette and heated tobacco product on conventional smoking: an Italian prospective cohort study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015–2019, USA	8
Advancing racial equity and social justice for Black communities in US tobacco control policy	8
Effects of IQOS health warnings and modified risk claims among young adult cigarette smokers and non-smokers	8
Treatment use patterns in a large extended-treatment tobacco cessation program: predictors and cost implications	8
Tobacco minimum packaging policy to reduce cigarillo use among young people: results of an experimental study	8
Tobacco retailers around schools in 10 cities across China	8
Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility activities amid COVID-19 pandemic in India	8
Public health impact of a US menthol cigarette ban on the non-Hispanic black population: a simulation study	8
‘95% less harmful’? Exploring reactions to quantitative modified risk claims for snus and e-cigarettes	8
Google shopping queries for vaping products, JUUL and IQOS during the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak	8
Cigarettes, heated tobacco products and dual use: exhaled carbon monoxide, saliva cotinine and total tobacco consumed by Hong Kong tobacco users	7
Miscommunication about the US federal Tobacco 21 law: a content analysis of Twitter discussions	7
Dose–response effects of two nicotine salt formulations on electronic cigarette appeal and sensory attributes	7
Older age is associated with greater misperception of the relative health risk of e-cigarettes and cigarettes among US adults who smoke	7
New products that facilitate stealth vaping: the case of SLEAV	7
What more evidence is needed? Remove menthol cigarettes from the marketplace—now	7
Quantifying and characterising tobacco content in the most in-demand streamed series in 10 low/middle-income countries in 2019	7
Association between e-cigarette use and food insecurity among low-income adults	7
Price promotion receipt and use progression of any tobacco, cigarettes, e-cigarettes and cigars among US youth between 2016 and 2018	7
Prohibition no, abolition yes! Rethinking how we talk about ending the cigarette epidemic	7
Characterising advertising strategies and expenditures for conventional and newer smokeless tobacco products	7
Targeted tobacco marketing in 2020: the case of #BlackLivesMatter	7
Switching people who smoke to unfiltered cigarettes: perceptions, addiction and behavioural effects in a cross-over randomised controlled trial	7
Beyond the European Union Tobacco Products Directive: smokers’ and recent quitters’ support for further tobacco control measures (2016–2018)	7
Demand for tobacco products in Bangladesh	7
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	7
New policy of people-first language to replace ‘smoker’, ‘vaper’ ‘tobacco user’ and other behaviour-based labels	7
Electronic cigarette users’ reactions and responses to a hypothetical ban of flavoured electronic cigarette liquids	7
Public support for policies to phase out the retail sale of cigarettes in Australia: results from a nationally representative survey	7
Using systems science to advance health equity in tobacco control: a causal loop diagram of smoking	7
Ethical publishing in ‘Indigenous’ contexts	7
Creating a market for IQOS: analysis of Philip Morris’ strategy to introduce heated tobacco products to the Australian consumer market	7
Document analysis of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s scientific outputs and activities: a case study in contemporary tobacco industry agnogenesis	7
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	7
E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts	6
Illicit cigarette trade in the cities of Pakistan: comparing findings between the consumer and waste recycle store surveys	6
Synthetic nicotine descriptors: awareness and impact on perceptions of e-cigarettes among US youth	6
Hypothetical flavour ban and intention to vape among vape shop customers: the role of flavour preference and e-cigarette dependence	6
Analysis of the illicit tobacco market in Georgia in response to fiscal and non-fiscal tobacco control measures	6
Proliferation of ‘non-menthol’ cigarettes amid a state-wide flavour ban	6
‘Help Save The Planet One Bidi Stick At A Time!’: greenwashing disposable vapes	6
Discrimination, identity connectedness and tobacco use in a sample of sexual and gender minority young adults	6
Vision for tobacco endgame in Korea: suggestions for countries with endgame aspirations	6
Justice, disparities and the tobacco endgame	6
Perceived effectiveness of four different cigarette health warning label themes among a sample of urban smokers and non-smokers in China	6
Primary care-based smoking cessation treatment and subsequent healthcare service utilisation: a matched cohort study of smokers using linked administrative healthcare data	6
Analysis of wedding appeals on cigarette packs in China	6
Tobacco control in the Eastern Mediterranean region: implementation progress and persisting challenges	6
Changing patterns of cigarette and ENDS transitions in the USA: a multistate transition analysis of youth and adults in the PATH Study in 2015–2017 vs 2017–2019	6
Harm reduction for smokers with little to no quit interest: can tobacco policies encourage switching to e-cigarettes?	6
Effects of electronic cigarettes and hookah (waterpipe) use on home air quality	6
Reducing attractiveness of e-liquids: proposal for a restrictive list of tobacco-related flavourings	6
Effects of electronic cigarette e-liquid flavouring on cigarette craving	6
Industry marketing of tobacco products on social media: case study of Philip Morris International’s IQOS	6
Extended cost–benefit analysis of tobacco taxation in Brazil	6
Carpe covid: using COVID-19 to communicate about harms of tobacco products	6
Ex ante evaluation of the impact of tobacco control policy measures aimed at the point of sale in the Netherlands	6
Litigation in tobacco control: past, present and future	6
Health, economic and social burden of tobacco in Latin America and the expected gains of fully implementing taxes, plain packaging, advertising bans and smoke-free environments control measures: a mod	6
Impact of smoking intensity and device cleaning on IQOS emissions: comparison with an array of cigarettes	6
Herbal smoking products: a systematic content analysis and mapping of the e-retail market	6
Effects of advertising features on smokers’ and non-smokers’ perceptions of a reduced nicotine cigarette modified risk tobacco product	6
Vuse Solo e-cigarettes do not provide net benefits to public health: a scientific analysis of FDA’s marketing authorisation	6
Impact of waterpipe tobacco taxation on consumption, government revenue and premature deaths averted in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: a simulation study	6
A Simulation of the potential impact of restricting tobacco retail outlets around middle and high schools on tobacco advertisements	6
South Asia’s evolving tobacco hydra: moving from quandary to hope	6
Electronic nicotine delivery systems in Nigeria: product types, flavours and nicotine content labels	6
Statewide vaping product excise tax policy and use of electronic nicotine delivery systems among US young adults, 2014–2019	6
National longitudinal tobacco product cessation rates among US adults from the PATH Study: 2013–2019 (waves 1–5)	5
Interpreting results, impacts and implications from WHO FCTC tobacco control investment cases in 21 low-income and middle-income countries	5