Objective: There is a widespread assumption that smoking behaviour is largely established by the age of 18 years. As a result, smoking prevention has focused almost exclusively upon youth. However, ...

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Correspondence to Dr James F Thrasher, Department of Health Promotion, Education & Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Discovery I Building, 534D, 915 Greene Street ...

Background While television advertisements (ads) that communicate the serious harms of smoking are effective in prompting quitting-related thoughts and actions, little research has been conducted ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeroen L A Pennings, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven 3721 MA, The Netherlands; jeroen.pennings{at}rivm.nl Objectives Recent years have seen an ...

Significance The tobacco industry uses different descriptors to market unflavoured cigarillos, which represent around half of ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of the Health Education Authority for England's anti-smoking television advertising campaign in motivating smokers to give up and preventing relapse in those ...

Objective: To follow up smokers to examine whether the likelihood of quitting smoking varied by area deprivation, and whether smoking history, health status, personality characteristics, social ...

Background Tobacco industry tactics that have proven effective in the past, such as using corporate social responsibility initiatives to curry favour with policymakers, have been examined in India.

The California Department of Public Health operates a comprehensive tobacco control programme that supports local communities’ efforts to pass policies limiting access to tobacco products.1 While ...

Objectives: To analyse a policy dilemma in China on public health versus the tobacco economy through additional cigarette tax. Methods: Using published statistics from 1980 through 1997 to estimate ...