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Cigarettes with flavored capsules in Chile: a trap for young people
Flavored cigarettes have been aggressively sold by tobacco companies for a relatively short time. Just 10 years ago, tobacco companies hardly marketed them. In 2019, however, in some countries, they are the main type of cigarettes consumed by young people. The case of Chile is an excellent example of this trend: in 2008, these products…
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Why Do Farmers Grow Tobacco? Evidence from Farmers in Indonesia and the Philippines
The supply of tobacco remains a pressing challenge to tobacco control. In the last two decades, there has been an increase in tobacco leaf production, especially in low- and middle-income countries where tobacco remains a popular and even dominant cash crop in some countries. This growth is happening despite a slow global decline in tobacco…
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Kenyan tobacco farmers are better off not growing tobacco, findings from two surveys reveal
During the week of July 29th, 2019, researchers from the International Institute for Legislative Affairs (Kenya) and the American Cancer Society released preliminary results from two recent waves of a longitudinal economic survey that track the livelihoods of smallholder tobacco farmers in Kenya. Over two growing seasons, the researchers closely followed both farmers currently growing tobacco…
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Heated Tobacco Products Replaced Cigarette Sales in Japan – New American Cancer Society Study
Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs) are rapidly expanding into new markets around the world, and in Japan and South Korea, they have gained a substantial share of the tobacco market. Unlike e-cigarettes, which contain a liquid nicotine solution called e-liquid, HTPs contain heat sticks or pellets made from a tobacco leaf paste that is treated with…
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Illicit cigarette in Mexico at half of what the tobacco industry says
Results from a large study released by the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico City today show that the scale of illicit cigarette trade in Mexico is much lower (8.8%) than what the tobacco industry claims (17%). The study used two separate methodologies: information collected from littered cigarette packs and through a survey…
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Lung Health: The Focus of World No Tobacco Day 2019
Every year on the last day in May, World No Tobacco Day is observed as an occasion to take action against tobacco. Every year, the WHO leads the selection of a new theme for the day’s campaigns to keep the messaging fresh and to demonstrate the breadth of issues that get swept up into the…
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Why do planes still have ashtrays?
Remember that time you had to use the bathroom on your last flight? You may have noticed a small lever for an ashtray right next to a large no-smoking sign, and wondered to yourself why there would be an ashtray there if people are clearly not allowed to smoke on airplanes anymore? No smoking on…
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Smokeless Tobacco Control Policy Lags Cigarette Policy Globally
Smokeless tobacco use remains a difficult issue in tobacco control policy circles. These products are harmful by any measure, but the level of hazard they pose to users varies widely according to how the products are prepared and used. Worldwide, the death toll from smokeless tobacco was 76,000 in 2017, but the death rate from…
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Summers-Bloomberg Report Emphasizes Role of Excise Taxes in Health Promotion
The father of free markets, Adam Smith, made the case in his seminal book The Wealth of Nations (written in 1776) that “Sugar, rum, and tobacco, are commodities which are no where necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.” Today, the Bloomberg…
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Cigarettes are becoming more affordable especially among younger and lower socioeconomic status smokers in China
China, one of the fastest growing upper-middle income countries in the world, is taking the brunt of the global tobacco epidemic which is gradually shifting to the low- and middle-income countries. China’s large population and high smoking prevalence are part of this scenario. The new millennium has seen rising per capita cigarette consumption in China…