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{"title":"Tobacco control advocates as human rights defenders: a call for recognition.","authors":"Britta K Matthes, Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059705","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145252836","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}

{"title":"Availability of flavoured tobacco in San Francisco Bay Area stores after California's statewide sales restriction.","authors":"Lisa Henriksen, Arzoo Alam, Trent O Johnson, Meilin Rice, Nina C Schleicher","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Prior to California's law restricting sales of flavoured tobacco, 129 jurisdictions in the state had local sales restrictions. This study assesses compliance with the state law and tests whether time since effective dates of local flavour laws predicted lower odds of a sales violation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Between June and August 2024, data collectors completed 332 purchase attempts (215 for menthol cigarettes, 117 for flavoured vapes) in 223 licensed tobacco retailers clustered in San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions with a comprehensive local law (n=17) and without a local law (n=5). Data collectors were randomly assigned to try to purchase menthol cigarettes or a flavoured vape. Data collectors completed a survey including open-ended items about clerks' responses. Generalised linear mixed models tested for a relationship between time since adoption of local laws and sales violation, adjusting for store type and data collector. Open-ended responses were categorised by theme.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Violation rate was 2.3% for menthol cigarettes and 19.7% for flavoured vapes. Although requests for flavoured vapes were not brand-specific, 83% of purchased vapes were FLUM. Tobacco specialty shops had the highest violation rate. Controlling for store type and data collector, there was no significant relationship between flavoured vape purchase and duration or presence of local law.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Menthol cigarette sales were rare, but sales of flavoured vapes persisted. Targets for further enforcement are tobacco specialty shops and FLUM. Contrary to expectation, duration of local laws was not associated with lower odds of violation, but the sample was limited to San Francisco Bay Area counties.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145252846","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}

{"title":"Scrolling past the law? Nicotine promotion on TikTok in a regulated market.","authors":"Stine Arp, Charlotta Pisinger, Sofie K Bergman Rasmussen, Lisbeth Lund, Lotus Sofie Bast","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145252868","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}

{"title":"Estimating tobacco product availability prevalence in medical cannabis dispensaries in Oklahoma, USA, 2024.","authors":"Amanda Y Kong, Iván Flores, Lily Herbert, Kimberly G Wagoner, Beth A Reboussin, Erin L Sutfin, Daniel P Giovenco, Mark Meaney","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059597","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2025-059597","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>As an increasing number of US states legalise cannabis use, they are faced with creating policies to regulate cannabis sales. In this observational cross-sectional study in Oklahoma, we estimate the prevalence of medical cannabis dispensaries selling tobacco products, which may increase the risk of tobacco use and cannabis co-use due to increased exposure to tobacco retail marketing and availability.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We downloaded publicly available medical cannabis dispensary and tobacco licence lists from the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority and the Oklahoma State Department of Health (April 2024). Using fuzzy matching techniques, we identified businesses that were on both the cannabis and tobacco licensing lists. Then, we conducted online Google business and image searches to assess the availability or marketing (yes/no) of tobacco products in cannabis dispensaries by looking for tobacco products (eg, cigarillos) and marketing (eg, cigarette ads on window fronts).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were 2166 licensed medical cannabis dispensaries and 4974 licensed tobacco retailers in Oklahoma. We identified 56 licensed cannabis dispensaries that potentially sold tobacco (56/2166=2.6% of all dispensaries) and 91 licensed tobacco retailers that potentially sold cannabis (91/4974=1.8% of all tobacco retailers).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>As cannabis legalisation increases, cannabis dispensaries and tobacco retailers may begin selling both substances, potentially leading to initiation, increased use and co-use and decreased cessation of tobacco and cannabis products. To address these health risks, state and local laws that clearly prohibit retailers from selling both substances simultaneously are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12525095/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245401","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}

{"title":"Effect of eliminating the sale of duty-free tobacco products: a natural experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, 2020-2023.","authors":"Mattia Sanna, Min-Kuang Tsai, J Robert Branston, Chia-Hung Liu, Wayne Gao","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059650","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Amidst the global effort to curb cross-border transmission of COVID-19, numerous nations enforced international travel restrictions. One example is Taiwan, which witnessed an 85%-90% reduction in international travel during 2020-2022 compared with the preceding decade's average. Consequently, sales of duty-free cigarettes plummeted by approximately 90%.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study leverages the virtual elimination of duty-free cigarette sales during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to scrutinise the impact of banning such sales on cigarette consumption. The focus is on whether the drastic reduction in duty-free sales was compensated by an increase in taxed cigarette sales.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analysed trends in sales of both duty-free and taxed cigarettes, using data from Taiwan Ministry of Finance and Customs Administration between 2010 and 2023. We used quadratic regression models to fit historical taxed and duty-free sales data from 2010 to 2019. Subsequently, we projected total sales between 2020 and 2023 under a business-as-usual scenario where no travel ban occurred and duty-free sales were not disrupted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The virtual eradication of duty-free cigarette sales was only partially offset by an upturn in taxed cigarette sales. The sales projected under the business-as-usual scenario consistently exceed the actual observations, with real data falling below the lower bound of the 95% CI in both 2021 and 2022.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Duty-free tobacco sales associated with international travel should be abolished for the benefit of both public health and government tax revenue.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233482","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}

{"title":"Purchase price of tobacco in small retailers in Great Britain: the relationships with neighbourhood deprivation and urbanicity between 2016-2021.","authors":"Helena Tunstall, Luke Brian Wilson, Roberto Valiente, Niamh K Shortt, Colin Angus, Alan Brennan, Duncan Gillespie, Jamie Pearce","doi":"10.1136/tc-2025-059286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Tobacco price is an important determinant of smoking behaviour. Using electronic point-of-sales (EPOS) data, this study assesses purchase price of factory-made cigarettes (FMC) and roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco across neighbourhood deprivation and urban/rural status in Britain. It considers price changes, 2016-2021 and brand price segmentation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The analysis uses EPOS data describing 10 156 106 tobacco packs sold from 1012 convenience stores, across 24 seasonally-distributed weeks (2016-2021). Gross sales prices were adjusted for inflation and presented per 20 cigarette sticks of FMC and equivalent RYO. Tobacco brand variants were assigned to four price segments (sub value, value, midprice and premium).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between 2016-2021, the sales-weighted price of tobacco (20 sticks or equivalent) reduced from £8.72 to £8.10, reflecting a shift from FMC to RYO (RYO increasing from 32-46% of tobacco sales). The mean price of 20 sticks of FMC in the most deprived neighbourhoods was 5% (£0.51-£0.59) lower compared with the least deprived in all years; for RYO, this price difference grew from 3% to 5% (£0.13-£0.28). The greater likelihood that tobacco was from lower price segments in more deprived areas largely accounted for this price difference.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Differences in average price paid for tobacco between more and less deprived neighbourhoods reflect variations in numbers of purchases across price segments. Combined (FMC and RYO) tobacco prices per stick have fallen, reflecting increasing RYO sales. Innovative approaches are required to respond to the tobacco industry's price differentiation by both price segment and product type and the growing importance of lower price RYO products.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233511","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}

{"title":"Cigarette smoking decline among US young adults from 2000 to 2019, in relation to state-level cigarette price and tobacco control expenditure.","authors":"Karen Messer, John P Pierce, Jiayu Chen, Man Luo, Matthew D Stone, Eric C Leas, Yuyan Shi, David R Strong, Dennis R Trinidad, Sara B McMenamin","doi":"10.1136/tc-2023-058483","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2023-058483","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association of state-level cigarette price and tobacco control expenditure with the large 2000-2019 decline in cigarette smoking among US 18-24 year-olds.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Smoking behaviour was assessed in the 24 most populous US states using the 1992-2019 Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey; association with price and expenditure was tested using adjusted logistic regression. States were ranked by inflation-adjusted average price and tobacco control expenditure and grouped into tertiles. State-specific time trends were estimated, with slope changes in 2001/2002 and 2010/2011.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between 2000 and 2010, the odds of smoking among US young adults decreased by a third (adjusted OR, AOR 0.68, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.84). By 2019, these odds were one-quarter of their 2000 level (AOR 0.24, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.31). Among states in the lowest tertile of price/expenditure tobacco control activity, initially higher young adult smoking decreased by 13 percentage points from 2010 to 2018-2019, to a prevalence of 5.6% (95% CI 4.5% to 6.8%), equal to that in the highest tobacco-control tertile of states (6.5%, 95% CI 5.2% to 7.8%). Neither state tobacco control spending (AOR 1.0, 95% CI 0.999 to 1.002) nor cigarette price (AOR 0.96, 95% CI: 0.92 to 1.01) were associated with young adult smoking in statistical models. In 2019, seven states had prevalence over 3 SDs higher than the 24-state mean.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>National programmes may have filled a gap in state-level interventions, helping drive down the social acceptability of cigarette smoking among young adults across all states. Additional interventions are needed to assist high-prevalence states to further reduce smoking.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":"671-679"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12175774/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564429","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}

{"title":"IQOS news media coverage in Israel: a comparison across three subpopulations.","authors":"Amal Khayat, Yael Bar-Zeev, Yechiel Kaufman, Carla Berg, Lorien Abroms, Zongshuan Duan, Cassidy R LoParco, Yan Wang, Yuxian Cui, Hagai Levine","doi":"10.1136/tc-2023-058422","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2023-058422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Philip Morris International's (PMI) IQOS, a leading heated tobacco product globally, entered the Israeli market in 2016. IQOS and/or electronic cigarette use is higher in Israel's Arab population (2.8% vs 1.2% of Jews). However, previous research indicated possible targeting of the Ultra-orthodox Jewish population with more IQOS paid ads. This paper examined how IQOS is framed in news media articles directed at three subpopulations in Israel: Arab, Ultra-orthodox Jews and general public.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Media articles (January-October 2020) were obtained from Ifat media and were coded using abductive coding. Characteristics of articles (photo and article content) targeting each subpopulation were compared using χ², Fisher's exact test, one-way analysis of variance and median test, as appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 63 unique articles identified, 16 targeted Arab, 24 Ultra-orthodox Jews and 23 general public. Arab and Ultra-orthodox Jewish media significantly differed from the general public's media in their positive framing of PMI (100% Arab and 75% Ultra-orthodox Jews vs 52% general public, p=0.004), and IQOS (100% Arab and 88% Ultra-orthodox Jews vs 61% general public, p=0.006). Arab media differed from others by highlighting IQOS' retail locations (81% vs 17% Ultra-orthodox Jews and 13% general public), social benefits (88% vs 8% Ultra-orthodox Jews and 17% general public) and reflecting content from PMI's press release (100% vs 46% Ultra-orthodox Jews and 35% general public; ps <0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>IQOS was framed more positively in media targeting minority populations (Arab and Ultra-orthodox Jews), compared with general public. Arabic media in particular emphasised IQOS' retail accessibility and social benefits. These findings highlight the need for media surveillance and regulation, especially of minority-oriented media.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":"694-699"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11735691/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141627742","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}

{"title":"Awareness and perceived behaviour changes following the New York state vaping flavour ban, 2021-2022.","authors":"Liane M Schneller, Jessica L Reid, Karin A Kasza, Richard J O'Connor, Andrew Hyland, David Hammond","doi":"10.1136/tc-2023-058569","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2023-058569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Significance: </strong>Despite an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) flavour ban in New York (NY) since May 2020, most youth who vape continue to report vaping restricted flavours. This study aims to examine youth awareness and perceived behaviour change associated with the NY vaping flavour ban.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>NY cross-sectional data from 2021 and 2022 ITC Youth Survey were combined and analysed (N=1014). Weighted analyses were used to describe awareness and understanding of the e-cigarette flavour ban, as well as changes in tobacco use behaviour.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Only 0.9% (n=8) of NY youth understood the flavour ban, in that they were both aware of the flavour ban in all stores and accurately reported that all non-tobacco flavours were banned. Awareness and understanding of the flavour ban differed by vaping status (p<0.01): respondents who had vaped in the past 12 months or 30 days were more likely (adjusted OR (aOR)=2.15, 95% CI 1.34, 3.45; aOR=2.07, 95% CI 1.17, 3.64, respectively) to be aware of the flavour ban but misunderstand the stores or flavours included. Of the majority of youth who reported awareness of a flavour ban and vaped (n=122) or smoked (n=78) in the past 12 months reported no changes in behaviour (64.0% and 69.7%, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Less than one-third of NY youth, regardless of vaping status, reported that an e-cigarette flavour ban was present where they live. Further, most youth who were aware of the ban misunderstood which flavours were restricted and/or that the ban applied to all stores that sold e-cigarettes. Increased enforcement and educational efforts could improve awareness and understanding of the NY e-cigarette flavour ban.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":"664-670"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747924/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724572","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}

{"title":"Benchmarking a universal smoking machine adaptor for tobacco product testing.","authors":"Ahmad El-Hellani, Clifford H Watson, Michelle Huang, Clark W Wilson, Clint C Fleshman, Hang Tran, Dana Chafin, Megan McGuigan, Roberto Bravo Cardenas, Ryan Petitti, Mary Pancake, Chad Bennett, Darren Mays, Brittney L Keller-Hamilton, Jeremy Jones, Wei Ye, Jason Schaff, Robert P Borthwick, Raymond L Williamson, Theodore L Wagener, Marielle C Brinkman","doi":"10.1136/tc-2023-058517","DOIUrl":"10.1136/tc-2023-058517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Significance: </strong>Characterisation of tobacco product emissions is an important step in assessing their impact on public health. Accurate and repeatable emissions data require that a leak-tight seal be made between the smoking or vaping machine and the mouth-end of the tobacco product being tested. This requirement is challenging because of the variety of tobacco product mouth-end geometries being puffed on by consumers today. We developed and tested a prototype universal smoking machine adaptor (USMA) that interfaces with existing machines and reliably seals with a variety of tobacco product masses and geometries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Emissions were machine-generated using the USMA and other available adaptors for a variety of electronic cigarettes (n=7 brands), cigars (n=4), cigarillos (n=2), a heated tobacco product, and a reference cigarette (1R6F), and mainstream total particulate matter (TPM) and nicotine were quantified. Data variability (precision, n≥10 replicates/brand) for all products and error (accuracy) from certified values (1R6F) were compared across adaptors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>TPM and nicotine emissions generated using the USMA were accurate, precise and agreed with certified values for the 1R6F reference cigarette. Replicate data indicate that USMA repeatability across all tobacco products tested generally meets or exceeds that from the comparison adaptors and extant data.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The USMA seals well with a variety of combustible tobacco products, e-cigarettes with differing geometries and plastic-tipped cigarillos. Variability for all measures was similar or smaller for the USMA compared with other adaptors.</p>","PeriodicalId":23145,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Control","volume":" ","pages":"680-687"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141620927","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}