Norway introduces standardised packaging on smokeless tobacco

What comes after standardised packaging for tobacco?

The tobacco industry is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century, with a global social burden costing an estimated $2.1tr a year. Smoking related disease remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in the UK. The implementation of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products on 20May in the UK and France, with Ireland soon to follow, therefore represe...

Standardised packaging and tobacco-industry-funded research.

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 July 19, 2014 233 Authors’ reply We thank Gerard Hanna and colleagues for their interest in our study, and agree it raises questions about the best sequence of treatments for patients with operable non-small-cell lung cancer. We found no difference in the number of complete resections b e t w e e n p a t i e n t s r e c e i v i n g chemotherapy compared with those rece...

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Use and abuse of statistics in tobacco industry-funded research on standardised packaging

In this commentary we consider the validity of tobacco industry-funded research on the effects of standardised packaging in Australia. As the first country to introduce standardised packs, Australia is closely watched, and Philip Morris International has recently funded two studies into the impact of the measure on smoking prevalence. Both of these papers are flawed in conception as well as des...

Bidis and smokeless tobacco

Bidis and smokeless tobacco are the cheapest, least taxed and most commonly used tobacco products in India. They are highly addictive and high in carcinogens. They cause a broad spectrum of diseases; yet awareness about their ill-effects is low. Smokeless tobacco products containing arecanut, e.g. gutka and mawa, are especially addictive and carcinogenic. The high incidences of oral and lung ca...