Perceived relative harm of e-cigarettes among Ukrainian adults.

Objectives: Emerging evidence suggests that the use of safer nicotine products (SNPs), such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) poses significantly lower health risks than continued smoking, particularly over the short and medium term. However, it remains uncertain whether the public has been adequately informed about these relative risks. This study assesses the perceived relative harm of e-cigarettes compared to conventional cigarettes in Ukraine.

Illicit cigarette market in Georgia: potential impacts on smoking prevalence and tax revenues.

Objectives: This study aims to examine the impact of taxation measures implemented between 2017 and 2019 on the illicit cigarette market in Georgia and to assess the potential effects of its full elimination on smoking rates and tax revenues.

Study Design: This was a cross-sectional and observational study.

Methods: The study uses the gap analysis method to estimate the size of the illicit market by comparing self-reported cigarette consumption with tax-paid cigarette sales.

The Potential Impact of E-cigarettes on the Life-Years Lost from Conventional Smoking in the Russian Federation.

Unlabelled: This study analyses the potential impact of e-cigarettes on the death toll of cigarette smoking in the Russian Federation by working under a variety of assumptions pertaining to how much vaping might affect smoking cessation and initiation, and its adverse impacts on health in comparison to conventional smoking. Within this study, each combination of these assumptions generates a single vaping scenario (210 in total). A dynamic population simulation model, specifically for the Russian Federation, that is tailoured to tobacco control policy analysis, is built for estimation purposes.