This economic evaluation uses wholesale cigarette sales data from manufacturers to compare cigarette sales before and after implementation of provincial and federal bans of menthol cigarettes in Canada.
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Health Promot Pract
January 2025
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA.
. Stringent regulations restricting tobacco access to those under 21 are in place, yet young people continue accessing tobacco products. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, opinions, resource utilization, and training needs of tobacco retailers in terms of preventing underage tobacco sales.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The effectiveness of tax increases in reducing tobacco consumption relies on the tobacco retailers and producers passing on increases to consumers (tax pass-through). Previous UK research on supermarkets found heterogeneous levels of tax pass-through across the market segments and price distribution of tobacco products. This study uses data from small retailers across the UK to assess whether recent tax changes have been passed on to consumers and if this varies across the price distribution, between countries of the UK and by neighbourhood deprivation.
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January 2025
Department of Economics, University of Indonesia Faculty of Economics and Business, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
Objectives: To investigate the relationship between purchasing loose cigarettes and adolescent smoking habits in Indonesia.
Design And Setting: This study employed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. We analysed the secondary data from a national survey, the 2019 Global Youth Tobacco Survey, using multivariable logistic regression models to examine the association between loose cigarette purchase and smoking frequency and intensity and nicotine dependence.
Introduction: The increasing use of electronic cigarettes among young adults in Southeast Asia is concerning. This study explores the motivations and challenges faced by young adults in quitting vaping and their perceptions of current public health messages and interventions in Singapore, which has stringent antivaping laws and active public health campaigns.
Methods: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted involving in-depth interviews with 15 participants aged 18-35.
Tob Prev Cessat
January 2025
School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Introduction: The tobacco industry presence in the retail environment ensures its access to current and potential tobacco users. Reduction of tobacco retail is an emerging tobacco control measure. Many policies that would potentially lead to reduction in retail are not covered by international tobacco laws and are individually adopted in some jurisdictions.
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