Implementing tobacco control policies

Exposure to tobacco marketing and support for tobacco control policies.

OBJECTIVES To examine the salience of tobacco marketing on postsecondary campuses and student support for tobacco control policies. METHODS Face-to-face surveys were conducted with 1690 students at 3 universities in southwestern Ontario. RESULTS Virtually all (97%) students reported noticing tobacco marketing in the past year, and 35% reported noticing marketing on campus. There was strong ...

Responses to tobacco control policies among youth.

OBJECTIVE Explore adolescents' response to current and potential tobacco control policy issues. DESIGN The 13 site Tobacco Control Network (TCN), sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted 129 sex and ethnic homogeneous focus groups. PARTICIPANTS 785 white, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Hispanic adolescents who were prima...

Tool 5. Tobacco Control Understand and Evaluate the Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Employment

Comparison of tobacco control policies in the Eastern Mediterranean countries based on Tobacco Control Scale scores.

This cross-sectional survey aimed to provide an overview of tobacco control strategies in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). A questionnaire to collate data on implementation of 6 major policies was developed based on the previously published Tobacco Control Scale and using MPOWER measures of the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative and the Tobacco Atlas. Only 3 of the 21 countries...

The effects of tobacco control policies on smoking rates: a tobacco control scorecard.

This article reviews studies of the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking rates with the aim of providing guidance on the importance of different policies. Based on past studies, we estimate the magnitude of effects of major tobacco control policies, how their effects depend on the manner in which the policies are implemented, the relationship between the different policies, and the bar...