Tobacco Control

Article	Citations
Evolution of the global smoking epidemic over the past half century: strengthening the evidence base for policy action	110
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on smoking consumption in a large representative sample of Italian adults	65
Global review of tobacco product flavour policies	64
Nicotine delivery and cigarette equivalents from vaping a JUULpod	54
COVID-19, smoking and inequalities: a study of 53 002 adults in the UK	53
Rapid increase in heated tobacco product (HTP) use from 2015 to 2019: from the Japan ‘Society and New Tobacco’ Internet Survey (JASTIS)	51
Impact of population tobacco control interventions on socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: a systematic review and appraisal of future research directions	51
Longitudinal transitions of exclusive and polytobacco electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016	50
Menthol e-cigarette sales rise following 2020 FDA guidance	49
Online popularity of JUUL and Puff Bars in the USA: 2019–2020	48
Exposure to health misinformation about COVID-19 and increased tobacco and alcohol use: a population-based survey in Hong Kong	47
Synthetic nicotine has arrived	45
Initiation of any tobacco and five tobacco products across 3 years among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	43
Correlates of tobacco product initiation among youth and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	43
Effectiveness of e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation: evidence from the PATH Study cohort, 2017–2019	42
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	42
E-cigarette brands and social media influencers on Instagram: a social network analysis	39
Vaping on TikTok: a systematic thematic analysis	39
Longitudinal pathways of exclusive and polytobacco cigarette use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	38
Longitudinal pathways of exclusive and polytobacco cigar use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	36
Flavour chemicals, synthetic coolants and pulegone in popular mint-flavoured and menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes	36
Electrical features, liquid composition and toxicant emissions from ‘pod-mod’-like disposable electronic cigarettes	36
Correlates of tobacco product cessation among youth and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	33
Prevalence of heated tobacco product use in Japan: the 2020 JASTIS study	33
Compliance with San Francisco’s flavoured tobacco sales prohibition	32

News coverage of the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak and internet searches for vaping cessation	32
Transitions between cigarette, ENDS and dual use in adults in the PATH study (waves 1–4): multistate transition modelling accounting for complex survey design	31
Co-optation of harm reduction by Big Tobacco	31
Differences in flavourant levels and synthetic coolant use between USA, EU and Canadian Juul products	31
Oral nicotine marketing claims in direct-mail advertising	31
Longitudinal pathways of exclusive and polytobacco hookah use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	30
Evolution of tobacco products: recent history and future directions	30
Boosting the Tobacco Control Vaccine: recognizing the role of the retail environment in addressing tobacco use and disparities	30
Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review	30
Moving targets: how the rapidly changing tobacco and nicotine landscape creates advertising and promotion policy challenges	30
#PuffBar: how do top videos on TikTok portray Puff Bars?	29
Youth and young adult risk perceptions and behaviours in response to an outbreak of e-cigarette/vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI) in the USA	29
Revisiting the association between worldwide implementation of the MPOWER package and smoking prevalence, 2008–2017	29
An estimation of the harm of menthol cigarettes in the United States from 1980 to 2018	29
Global tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship regulation: what’s old, what’s new and where to next?	29
Tobacco promotion restriction policies on social media	28
Implementation of a comprehensive flavoured tobacco product sales restriction and retail tobacco sales	28
Public health impact of a US ban on menthol in cigarettes and cigars: a simulation study	28
Exploring the gateway hypothesis of e-cigarettes and tobacco: a prospective replication study among adolescents in the Netherlands and Flanders	28
Ice flavours and non-menthol synthetic cooling agents in e-cigarette products: a review	27
Correlates of tobacco product reuptake and relapse among youth and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	27
Tobacco industry tactics to circumvent and undermine the menthol cigarette ban in the UK	26
‘It has candy. You need to press on it’: young adults’ perceptions of flavoured cigarettes in the Philippines	26
Associations of tobacco retailer density and proximity with adult tobacco use behaviours and health outcomes: a meta-analysis	26
Flavoured tobacco product restrictions in Massachusetts associated with reductions in adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use	26
Analysis of FDA’s IQOS marketing authorisation and its policy impacts	25
Smoking epidemic in Europe in the 21st century	25
Trends in e-cigarette brands, devices and the nicotine profile of products used by youth in England, Canada and the USA: 2017–2019	25
Awareness and prevalence of e-cigarette use among Chinese adults: policy implications	24
Vape shop and consumer activity during COVID-19 non-essential business closures in the USA	24
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	24
Electronic cigarette use intensity measurement challenges and regulatory implications	23
Plain tobacco packaging: progress, challenges, learning and opportunities	23
Effect of a ‘tobacco-free nicotine’ claim on intentions and perceptions of Puff Bar e-cigarette use among non-tobacco-using young adults	23
Disparities in the prevalence of cigarette smoking among bisexual people: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression	21
Machine learning applications in tobacco research: a scoping review	21
Retail endgame strategies: reduce tobacco availability and visibility and promote health equity	21
IQOS marketing strategies in the USA before and after US FDA modified risk tobacco product authorisation	21
‘Ice’ flavoured e-cigarette use among young adults	20
Reactions to messages about smoking, vaping and COVID-19: two national experiments	20
Awareness, trial and use of heated tobacco products among adult cigarette smokers and e-cigarette users: findings from the 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey	20
Paying lip service to publication ethics: scientific publishing practices and the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World	20
Influencer prevalence and role on cigar brand Instagram pages	19
Exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic by e-cigarette marketers	19
Consequences of a match made in hell: the harm caused by menthol smoking to the African American population over 1980–2018	19
Effect of flavour manipulation on ENDS (JUUL) users’ experiences, puffing behaviour and nicotine exposure among US college students	18
Cigarette-like cigarillo introduced to bypass taxation, standardised packaging, minimum pack sizes, and menthol ban in the UK	18
Impact of a comprehensive tobacco control policy package on acute myocardial infarction and stroke hospital admissions in Beijing, China: interrupted time series study	18
Landscape of tobacco control in sub-Saharan Africa	18
Smoking cessation: health system challenges and opportunities	18

The use of flavour cards and other additives after a menthol ban in Canada	17
Indicators of dependence and efforts to quit vaping and smoking among youth in Canada, England and the USA	17
Longitudinal pathways of exclusive and polytobacco smokeless use among youth, young adults and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)	17
New tobacco products, old advertising strategies: point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala	17
Tobacco retail licencing systems in Europe	17
Tobacco imagery in on-demand streaming content popular among adolescents and young adults in India: implications for global tobacco control	17
The ‘filter fraud’ persists: the tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment	16
Assessing cigarette packaging and labelling policy effects on early adolescents: results from a discrete choice experiment	16
Flavour capsule cigarette use and perceptions: a systematic review	16
Simulating the density reduction and equity impact of potential tobacco retail control policies	16
Self-reported exposure of Indonesian adolescents to online and offline tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS)	16
Achievements, challenges, priorities and needs to address the current tobacco epidemic in Latin America	16
Do JUUL and e-cigarette flavours change risk perceptions of adolescents? Evidence from a national survey	16
Tobacco retail availability and cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth and adults: a scoping review	16
Local sales restrictions significantly reduce the availability of menthol tobacco: findings from four Minnesota cities	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
Voltage and e-liquid composition affect nicotine deposition within the oral cavity and carbonyl formation	16
Secondhand smoke exposure and oral cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Effects of modified risk tobacco product claims on consumer comprehension and risk perceptions of IQOS	15
Smoke-free spaces: a decade of progress, a need for more?	15
Nicotine pouch product awareness, interest and ever use among US adults who smoke, 2021	15
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	15
Successful countering of tobacco industry efforts to overturn Thailand's ENDS ban	15
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	15
Economic cost of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries	15
Nicotine dependence of cigarette and heated tobacco users in Japan, 2019: a cross-sectional analysis of the JASTIS Study	14
Tobacco farming and current debt status among smallholder farmers in Manicaland province in Zimbabwe	14
From social accessory to societal disapproval: smoking, social norms and tobacco endgames	14
The temporary ban on tobacco sales in South Africa: lessons for endgame strategies	14
Impossible until implemented: New Zealand shows the way	14
Potential impact of eliminating illicit trade in cigarettes: a demand-side perspective	14
Flavour spectrum of the Puff family of disposable e-cigarettes	14
The tobacco industry in the time of COVID-19: time to shut it down?	14
Optimising tobacco control campaigns within a changing media landscape and among priority populations	14
Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori:non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan	14
Evaluating how licensing-law strategies will impact disparities in tobacco retailer density: a simulation in Ohio	14
'Menthol-Plus’: a major category of cigarette found among ‘concept’ descriptor cigarettes from Mexico	13
E-cigarette-inclusive smoke-free policies, excise taxes, tobacco 21 and changes in youth e-cigarette use: 2017–2019	13
Tobacco industry pricing strategies in response to excise tax policies: a systematic review	13
Levels of nicotine and tobacco-specific nitrosamines in oral nicotine pouches	13
Effect of a hypothetical modified risk tobacco product claim on heated tobacco product use intention and perceptions in young adults	13
Overview of tobacco use transitions for population health	13
Evaluating tobacco industry ‘transformation’: a proposed rubric and analysis	13
Tobacco package health warnings: a global success story	13
Tobacco control in Asia-Pacific: wins, challenges and targets	13
Might limiting liquid nicotine concentration result in more toxic electronic cigarette aerosols?	13
Perceived effectiveness of objective elements of vaping prevention messages among adolescents	13
Trends in cigarette brand preference among Mexican smokers: the rise of Pall Mall	13
Youth-appealing features in popular e-cigarette brand advertising in the USA after heightened scrutiny in 2018	13
Over 1 year later: smokers’ EVALI awareness, knowledge and perceived impact on e-cigarette interest	12
Where next for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control?	12
Risk and safety profile of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS): an umbrella review to inform ENDS health communication strategies	12
‘They have a right to participate as a stakeholder’: Article 5.3 implementation and government interactions with the tobacco industry in Ethiopia	12
Changes in cigarillo availability following implementation of a local flavoured tobacco sales restriction	12
Standardising the measurement of e-cigarette taxes in the USA, 2010–2020	12
Attitudes of smokers towards tobacco control policies: findings from the Studying Tobacco users of Pakistan (STOP) survey	12
Analysis of potential associations of JUUL flavours with health symptoms based on user-generated data from Reddit	12
Nicotine pouch marketing strategies in the USA: an analysis of Zyn, On! and Velo	12
Tobacco farming: overcoming an understated impediment to comprehensive tobacco control	12
The EVALI outbreak and tobacco sales in the USA, 2014–2020	12
Ethyl maltol, vanillin, corylone and other conventional confectionery-related flavour chemicals dominate in some e-cigarette liquids labelled ‘tobacco’ flavoured	11
‘It brings light to what you really put into your body’: a focus group study of reactions to messages about nicotine reduction in cigarettes	11
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	11
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	11
Excise taxes and pricing activities of e-liquid products sold in online vape shops	11
What facilitates policy audacity in tobacco control? An analysis of approaches and supportive factors for innovation in seven countries	11
Questioning the regressivity of tobacco taxes: a distributional accounting impact model of increased tobacco taxation	11
European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD): current impact and future steps	11
Cross-validation of four different survey methods used to estimate illicit cigarette consumption in Brazil	11
Use of heated tobacco products where their use is prohibited	11
Association of heated tobacco product use with smoking cessation in Chinese cigarette smokers in Hong Kong: a prospective study	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
Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of standardised packaging and minimum excise tax on tobacco sales and industry revenue in the UK	11
California’s tobacco 21 minimum sales age law and adolescents’ tobacco and nicotine use: differential associations among racial and ethnic groups	11
Impact of flavors and humectants on waterpipe tobacco smoking topography, subjective effects, toxicant exposure and intentions for continued use	10
Trends in public interest in shopping and point-of-sales of JUUL and Puff Bar 2019–2021	10
Association of device type, flavours and vaping behaviour with tobacco product transitions among adult electronic cigarette users in the USA	10
Own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for cigarettes and waterpipe tobacco in three Eastern Mediterranean countries: a volumetric choice experiment	10
Crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure in Vietnam	10
Perceived risk of electronic cigarettes compared with combustible cigarettes: direct versus indirect questioning	10

Sources of flavoured e-cigarettes among California youth and young adults: associations with local flavoured tobacco sales restrictions	10
Tobacco company agreements with tobacco retailers for price discounts and prime placement of products and advertising: a scoping review	10
Tobacco industry marketing adaptations to Singapore plain packaging	10
Natural American Spirit cigarettes are marketed as ‘made different’: the role of brand positioning and differentiation	10
Bigger, stronger and cheaper: growth in e-cigarette market driven by disposable devices with more e-liquid, higher nicotine concentration and declining prices	10
Identifying best practices in adoption, implementation and enforcement of flavoured tobacco product restrictions and bans: lessons from experts	10
Effects of an 80% cigarette price increase on quit attempts, successful quitting and smoking intensity among Korean adult smokers: results from nationally representative longitudinal panel data	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
Identifying best modelling practices for tobacco control policy simulations: a systematic review and a novel quality assessment framework	10
Cross-promotion of nicotine pouches by leading cigarette brands	9
How much of the future mortality toll of smoking can be avoided?	9
Systemic biomarkers of exposure associated with ENDS use: a scoping review	9
Smoking-related cancer death among men and women in an ageing society (China 2020–2040): a population-based modelling study	9
Shedding ‘light’ on cigarette pack design: colour differences in product perceptions, use and exposure following the US descriptor ban	9
Profile of menthol cigarette smokers in the months following the removal of these products from the market: a cross-sectional population survey in England	9
Impact of cigarette package warnings on attitudes towards sharing and gifting cigarettes in China: a nationwide study of smokers and non-smokers	9
Tobacco industry strategies for flavour capsule cigarettes: analysis of patents and internal industry documents	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 trade in tobacco products: recent trends and coming challenges	9
Brief report on IQOS point-of-sale marketing, promotion and pricing in IQOS retail partner stores in Atlanta, Georgia, USA	9
Tobacco or not tobacco: predicting farming households’ income in Indonesia	9
The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council: Advocating for a menthol cigarette ban in San Francisco, California	9
Simulating future public health benefits of tobacco control interventions: a systematic review of models	9
JUUL ‘new technology’ pods exhibit greater electrical power and nicotine output than previous devices	9
FDA’s reduced exposure marketing order for IQOS: why it is not a reliable global model	9
CBD products that resemble tobacco products enter traditional retail outlets	9
Prisoners and prison staff express increased support for prison smoking bans following implementation across Scotland: results from the Tobacco In Prisons study	9
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	9
Thoughts on neologisms and pleonasm in scientific discourse and tobacco control	9
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers	9
Inferences beyond a claim: a typology of potential halo effects related to modified risk tobacco product claims	9
Classifying the comprehensiveness of flavoured tobacco sales restrictions: development and application of a tool to examine US state and local tobacco policies	9
Changes in tobacco depictions after implementation of tobacco-free film and TV rules in Bollywood films in India: a trend analysis	8
Ignoring our elders: tobacco control’s forgotten health equity issue	8
IQOS marketing strategies at point-of-sales: a cross-sectional survey with retailers	8
Tobacco companies’ exploitation of loopholes in the EU ban on menthol cigarettes: a case study from Denmark	8
Applying topic modelling and qualitative content analysis to identify and characterise ENDS product promotion and sales on Instagram	8
Policy incoherence and tobacco control in Indonesia: an analysis of the national tobacco-related policy mix	8
Smoking behaviours and indoor air quality: a comparative analysis of smoking-permitted versus smoke-free homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh	8
Implementing smokeless tobacco control policy in Pakistan: a qualitative study among Naswar supply chain actors	8
Support for cigarette filter waste policies among US adults	8
Association of cigarette production and tobacco retailer density on secondhand smoke exposure in urban China	8
E-cigarette use and promotion by social media influencers during videogame play on Twitch	8
Characteristics and changes over time of nicotine vaping products used by vapers in the 2016 and 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys	8
Tool to assess appeal–aversion response to graphic warning labels on cigarette packs among US smokers	8
Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda	8
E-cigarette flavour enhancers: Flavoured pod attachments compatible with JUUL and other pod-based devices	8
Innovative promotional strategies and diversification of flavoured mass merchandise cigar products: a case study of Swedish match	8
Tobacco price elasticity in Serbia: evidence from a middle-income country with high prevalence and low tobacco prices	8
Addressing lower-priced cigarette products through three-pronged comprehensive regulation on excise taxes, minimum price policies and restrictions on price promotions	8
Trends in unit sales of cooling flavoured e-cigarettes, USA, 2017–2021	8
The changing retail landscape for tobacco: dollar stores and the availability of cheap cigarettes among tobacco-related priority populations	8
Using systems science to advance health equity in tobacco control: a causal loop diagram of smoking	8
Still ‘Cool’: tobacco industry responds to state-wide menthol ban with synthetic coolants	8
Exploring the Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	8
Do people know that cigarette filters are mainly composed of synthetic material? A representative survey of the German population (the DEBRA study)	7
Smoking and vaping among Canadian youth and adults in 2017 and 2019	7
Treatment use patterns in a large extended-treatment tobacco cessation program: predictors and cost implications	7
Future smoking prevalence by socioeconomic status in England: a computational modelling study	7
Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility activities amid COVID-19 pandemic in India	7
‘No-Barriers’ tobacco product? Selling smokeless tobacco to women, people of colour and the LGBTQ+ community in the USA	7
New products that facilitate stealth vaping: the case of SLEAV	7
Big tobacco using Trojan horse tactics to exploit Indigenous peoples	7
‘Give ‘em the vape, sell ‘em the pods’: razor-and-blades methods of pod e-cigarette pricing	7
Second-hand smoke surveillance and COVID-19: a missed opportunity	7
Understanding the dynamics of notification and implementation of Article 5.3 across India’s states and union territories	7
Development of the UNC Perceived Message Effectiveness Scale for Youth	7
Prohibition no, abolition yes! Rethinking how we talk about ending the cigarette epidemic	7
Analysis of mainstream emissions, secondhand emissions and the environmental impact of IQOS waste: a systematic review on IQOS that accounts for data source	7
Marketing of flavour capsule cigarettes: a systematic review	7
Discrepancies in the Brazilian tobacco production chain: raw inputs, international trade and legal cigarette production	7
Tobacco endgame and priority populations: a scoping review	7
Tobacco legislation reform and industry response in Israel	7
Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015–2019, USA	7
Google shopping queries for vaping products, JUUL and IQOS during the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak	7
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	7
Tobacco minimum packaging policy to reduce cigarillo use among young people: results of an experimental study	7
Use of heated tobacco products in smoke-free locations in Japan: the JASTIS 2019 study	7
Assessing toxicant emissions from e-liquids with DIY additives used in response to a potential flavour ban in e-cigarettes	7
Critical appraisal of interventional clinical trials assessing heated tobacco products: a systematic review	7
Evaluating the impact of plain packaging among Canadian smokers: findings from the 2018 and 2020 ITC Smoking and Vaping Surveys	7
Impact of the FDA flavour enforcement policy on flavoured electronic cigarette use behaviour changes	7
Quantifying and characterising tobacco content in the most in-demand streamed series in 10 low/middle-income countries in 2019	7