Hiding in plain sight
Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians
International Research
Tobacco Control
PHE publishes independent expert e-cigarettes evidence review
The report covers e-cigarette use among young people and adults, public attitudes, the impact on quitting smoking, an update on risks to health and the role of nicotine. It also reviews heated tobacco products.
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E-Cigarettes
E-cigarettes: an evidence update
An expert review of the latest evidence concludes that e-cigarettes are around 95% safer than smoked tobacco and they can help smokers to quit
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Tobacco Control
Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction
This report provides an update on the use of harm reduction in tobacco smoking, in relation to all non-tobacco nicotine products but particularly e-cigarettes. It shows that, for all the potential risks involved, harm reduction has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society.
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Tobacco Control
Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy: Do Complete Abstinence and Low Level Cigarette Smoking Have Similar Impact on Birth Weight?
Despite awareness of negative health outcomes associated with smoking, pregnant smokers might reduce their tobacco consumption thinking that a low smoking rate reduces smoking-related negative birth outcomes
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CPHSS and TCLC publish Policy Strategies and Pricing Policy tobacco control guides
The Policy Strategies tobacco control guide provides guidance on how to work with the media, coalitions, decision makers, business owners, and communities to create smoke-free environments, increase the cost of tobacco products, and restrict access to tobacco products
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Tobacco Control
Land Use/Zoning
Although no court has yet addressed tobacco related land use regulations, using local land use regulation to advance public health policy is likely a valid exercise of a local government’s police power.
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Supply Reduction
Reduced nicotine content cigarettes and use of alternative nicotine products: exploratory trial
Aims To compare the use of alternative nicotine products, smoking behavior and tobacco biomarker exposure in
smokers unwilling to quit who were assigned randomly to normal nicotine content (NNC) cigarettes or very low nicotine
content (VLNC) cigarettes.
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LICENSING, ZONING, AND RETAILER DENSITY
Licensing and zoning are two of the most lasting strategies to impact the density of tobacco retailers, the types of retailers that can sell tobacco, and the location of tobacco retailers.
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Supply Reduction
Best practices in tobacco control in the South-East Asia Region
The tobacco epidemic is an increasing threat to public health with the tobacco burden particularly high in WHO's South-East Asia Region (SEAR). The Region has many obstacles to tobacco control, but despite these challenges, significant progress has been made in many countries
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Supply Reduction