Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-31DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-058342
Roberto Valiente, Helena Tunstall, Amanda Y Kong, Luke B Wilson, Duncan Gillespie, Colin Angus, Alan Brennan, Niamh K Shortt, Jamie Pearce
{"title":"Geographical differences in the financial impacts of different forms of tobacco licence fees on small retailers in Scotland.","authors":"Roberto Valiente, Helena Tunstall, Amanda Y Kong, Luke B Wilson, Duncan Gillespie, Colin Angus, Alan Brennan, Niamh K Shortt, Jamie Pearce","doi":"10.1136/tc-2023-058342","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2023-058342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Retailer licencing fees are a promising avenue to regulate tobacco availability. However, they face strong opposition from retailers and the tobacco industry, who argue significant financial impacts. This study compares the impacts of different forms of tobacco licence schemes on retailers' profits in Scotland.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We calculated gross profits from tobacco sales in 179 convenience stores across Scotland using 1 099 697 electronic point-of-sale records from 16 weeks between 2019 and 2022. We estimated different fees using universal, volumetric and separate urban/rural schemes. We identified the point at which 50% of retailers would no longer make a gross profit on tobacco sales for each scheme and modelled the financial impact of 10 incremental fee levels. The financial impact was assessed based on changes in retailers' tobacco gross profits. Differences by neighbourhood deprivation and urban/rural status were examined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The gross profit from tobacco per convenience store averaged £15 859/year. Profits were 2.29 times higher in urban (vs rural) areas and 1.59 times higher in high-deprivation (vs low-deprivation) areas, attributable to higher sales volumes. Tobacco gross profit decreased proportionally with increasing fee levels. Universal and urban/rural fees had greater gross profit reductions in rural and/or less deprived areas, where profits were lower, compared with volumetric fees.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The introduction of tobacco licence fees offers a potential opportunity for reducing the availability of tobacco retailers. The likely impact of a tobacco licence fee is sensitive to the type of licence scheme implemented, the level at which fees are set and the retailers' location in relation to neighbourhood deprivation and rurality.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":"461-471"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12168086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-31DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059696
Marita Hefler
{"title":"First post-COVID World Conference on Tobacco Control: making progress in the 'new normal'.","authors":"Marita Hefler","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059696","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":"34 4","pages":"423-424"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059516
Eugene M Talbot, Ollie Ganz, Patrick V Barnwell, Jon-Patrick Allem, Mary Hrywna, Kevin R J Schroth, Cristine D Delnevo
{"title":"Nicotine pouch brands: the new route of auto racing sponsorships worldwide.","authors":"Eugene M Talbot, Ollie Ganz, Patrick V Barnwell, Jon-Patrick Allem, Mary Hrywna, Kevin R J Schroth, Cristine D Delnevo","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059516","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2025-059516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12362659/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059212
Jessica M Mongilio, Jeremy Staff, Christopher H Seto, Jennifer L Maggs, Rebecca J Evans-Polce
{"title":"Risk of adolescent cigarette use in three UK birth cohorts before and after e-cigarettes.","authors":"Jessica M Mongilio, Jeremy Staff, Christopher H Seto, Jennifer L Maggs, Rebecca J Evans-Polce","doi":"10.1136/tc-2024-059212","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2024-059212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Longitudinal data from three UK birth cohorts (born in 1958, 1970 and 2001) were used to (1) document the historic decline in adolescent cigarette smoking; (2) examine how e-cigarette use is associated with adolescent cigarette smoking in the most recent cohort; and (3) compare probabilities of cigarette smoking across the cohorts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The prevalence of adolescent cigarette smoking was assessed in 1974 from 11 969 youth in the National Child Development Study (NCDS), in 1986 from 6222 youth in the British Cohort Study (BCS), and in 2018 from 9733 youth in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds of adolescent smoking (ages 16-17) based on a common set of childhood risk and protective factors; adolescent e-cigarette use was included as a predictor in the more recent MCS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Adolescent cigarette smoking declined from 33% in 1974 to 25% in 1986 and to 12% in 2018. 11% of MCS youth reported current e-cigarette use. Though childhood risk factors for later adolescent smoking were mostly similar across the three cohorts, the risk of cigarette smoking in the MCS varied greatly by e-cigarette use. Among MCS youth, the average predicted probability of smoking ranged from 1% among e-cigarette naïve youth to 33% among youth currently using e-cigarettes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adolescents who use e-cigarettes have a similar smoking prevalence to earlier generations. Policy and prevention should seek to prevent adolescent nicotine exposure via both electronic and combustible cigarettes.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313170/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059206
Crawford Moodie, Daniel Jones, Catherine Best
{"title":"The impact of standardised tobacco packaging and warnings on relapse prevention: a longitudinal online survey in the UK.","authors":"Crawford Moodie, Daniel Jones, Catherine Best","doi":"10.1136/tc-2024-059206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-059206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The aim of standardised tobacco packaging is to discourage uptake, encourage cessation, help people who previously smoked avoid relapse and reduce exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. Despite the growing body of evaluative research on standardised packaging, no study has explored the impact, if any, on relapse. In the UK, standardised packaging was phased in between May 2016 and May 2017.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Adult Tobacco Policy Survey is a longitudinal online survey with people who smoke and previously smoked in the UK, with one wave conducted pre-standardised packaging (2016) and three waves post-standardised packaging (2017, 2019, 2022). We explored whether the look of standardised packs, and the warnings on standardised packs, were considered to help prevent relapse.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across the three post-standardised packaging waves, around one-third (33.5%-35.9%) of people who previously smoked agreed that the look of packs helped them to stay quit at least a little ('a little' 14.8%-15.0%; 'somewhat' 9.8%-10.9%; 'a lot' 8.9%-10.0%), while almost a half (47.5%-49.3%) agreed that warning labels helped them stay quit at least a little ('a little' 17.0%-18.1%; 'somewhat' 13.1%-14.7%; 'a lot' 15.3%-17.6%). There were no significant changes across the post-standardised packaging waves. Women, participants below 40 years of age and those from non-white ethnic backgrounds were more likely to report that the packaging and the warnings helped them stay quit across the post-standardised packaging waves.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings provide support for a foundational, yet overlooked, role of standardised packaging, which is to help people who previously smoked to stay quit.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144733430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059469
Sarah E Jackson, Lion Shahab, Jamie Brown
{"title":"The end of smoking in England? The importance of considering different metrics of success.","authors":"Sarah E Jackson, Lion Shahab, Jamie Brown","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059527
Britta K Matthes, Laura Graen, Katrin Schaller
{"title":"\"Let us all work together for the larger public health good.\" Philip Morris targeting German dental professionals.","authors":"Britta K Matthes, Laura Graen, Katrin Schaller","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059450
Emily E Hackworth, Dana Mowls Carroll, Eric C Donny, Rachel L Denlinger-Apte, Dorothy Hatsukami
{"title":"Policy support and potential black-market use in response to a reduced nicotine standard: responses following a 12-week open-label clinical trial.","authors":"Emily E Hackworth, Dana Mowls Carroll, Eric C Donny, Rachel L Denlinger-Apte, Dorothy Hatsukami","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-20DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059342
Sheng Zhi Zhao, Hua Yin, Jiayu Tu, Xue Weng, Man Ping Wang
{"title":"From packs to games: a qualitative study on children's experiences and perceptions of cigarette card games in China.","authors":"Sheng Zhi Zhao, Hua Yin, Jiayu Tu, Xue Weng, Man Ping Wang","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The lack of plain packaging and pictorial warnings on cigarette packs in China has provided a window for children to play and collect cards made from cigarette packages. This study examined children's participation in cigarette card (CC) games and parents' views on packaging regulations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Between September and December 2024, semistructured interviews were conducted with 21 child-parent dyads (19 boys, 2 girls; 17 mothers, 4 fathers) using purposive and snowball sampling in nine provinces in China. Eligible children aged 6-12 years had played CC games in the past month. Separate child and parent interviews were conducted using tailored guides to minimise bias. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed through thematic analysis with dual coding and triangulation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Five key themes emerged: (1) attractive designs as a gateway to gameplay, (2) development of brand knowledge through gameplay, (3) packaging as a marker of social value, (4) neglect of text-based warnings by children and (5) parental demands for pictorial warnings. Vibrant packaging colours and logos primarily motivated children's participation. Card collection normalised smoking by increasing brand knowledge and enabling peer status competition through card ownership. Parents observed that textual warnings failed to deter gameplay but emphasised that pictorial warnings showing health risks could reduce the game's popularity among children.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Attractive cigarette packaging drives children's involvement in CC games, which in turn normalises smoking by promoting brand familiarity and social exchange among peers. China must urgently implement pictorial warnings and plain packaging to reduce tobacco's appeal and protect the younger generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144675647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tobacco ControlPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059241
Tanner D Wakefield, Rosendo Iniguez, Stella Bialous, Pamela Ling, Dorie E Apollonio
{"title":"Tobacco industry efforts to harness the voice and influence of community organisations.","authors":"Tanner D Wakefield, Rosendo Iniguez, Stella Bialous, Pamela Ling, Dorie E Apollonio","doi":"10.1136/tc-2024-059241","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2024-059241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The tobacco industry historically recruited community groups to advance its policy agenda; however, there has been little study of industry recruitment of Latinx organisations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We reviewed internal tobacco industry documents to identify activities, messaging and strategies used by the Tobacco Institute to obtain political support from a prominent Latinx organisation in the USA. Documents were identified through keyword searches, organised in a spreadsheet and analysed for content.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From 1984 to 1989, the Tobacco Institute funded the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) to support its policy agenda. The Tobacco Institute hired organisation leaders, used a public relations firm to plan activities, crafted messages to encourage Latinx support and provided funding to strengthen relationships with LULAC. This encouraged LULAC to actively support the tobacco industry's positions while obscuring industry involvement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The Tobacco Institute used tactics identified in previous research on third-party industry allies to build a partnership with LULAC. Tobacco companies use similar practices in the 21st century. Our findings suggest a need for transparency regarding industry funding of community organisations given its potential to influence them in ways that promote health harms.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12363563/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}