OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence and frequency of electronic (e)-cigarette use among young people in Wales, associations with socio-demographic characteristics, smoking and other substances and the sequencing of e-cigarette and tobacco use. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey of school students in Wales undertaken in 2015. SETTING 87 secondary schools in Wales. PARTICIPANTS Students aged ...

BACKGROUND To date, Lebanon has failed to enact comprehensive clean indoor air laws despite ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which calls for the protection of non-smokers from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS). Complicating the problem of SHS exposure in Lebanon is the widespread use of the tobacco water-pipe. While most research on SHS has involved c...

OBJECTIVE To describe cigarette labeling policies in Latin America and the Caribbean as of August 2010. MATERIAL AND METHODS Review of tobacco control legislation of all 33 countries of the region; analysis of British American Tobacco (BAT)'s corporate social reports; analysis of information from cigarette packages collected in 27 countries. RESULTS In 2002, Brazil became the first country ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) attributes 4.9 million deaths annually to tobacco. That figure could reach 10 million by 2030. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), an international surveillance project developed jointly by WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), enables countries to monitor youth tobacco use and guide implementation and evaluation of tobacco prev...

In this issue, Kostova and colleagues provide the strongest evidence to date on the effectiveness of higher cigarette prices in reducing youth smoking in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs). Their analysis of data from multiple waves of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) conducted in 17 LMICs between 1999 and 2006 shows that increased cigarette prices would lead to significant reductions...

BACKGROUND E-cigarettes are seen by some as offering harm reduction potential, where used effectively as smoking cessation devices. However, there is emerging international evidence of growing use among young people, amid concerns that this may increase tobacco uptake. Few UK studies examine the prevalence of e-cigarette use in non-smoking children or associations with intentions to smoke. ME...

As public health reckons with the implications of language, word choice and their impacts,1–3 so too does Tobacco Control . Indeed, editor-in-chief in 2010 pointed to power language bounding discussions field.4 A common parlance or agreed on set terms is important for moving science (and policy) forward—comparing like like, allowing replication, facilitating review synthesis, translating into a...

OBJECTIVES To provide a descriptive and comparative content analysis of tobacco print magazine ads, with a focus on rhetorical and persuasive themes. METHODS Print tobacco ads for cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, moist snuff, and snus (N = 171) were content analyzed for the physical composition/ad format (e.g., size of ad, image, setting, branding, warning label) and the content of the ad (e...

As the most preventable cause of death in the world today, understanding tobacco use among one of the fastest growing ethnic/racial groups is warranted. We explore cigarette and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among South Asians in NJ and the Northeast using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey. Overall, tobacco use rates among South Asians were similar or lower than the popu...

Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) play an important role in detoxification of various toxic compounds like carcinogens in cigarette smoke and tobacco by conjugating to toxic compounds and inactivating their hazardous effect. Variation in Glutathione S-Transferases (GSTs) genes may alter the catalytic efficiency of GST isoenzymes leading to potential increase in cancer susceptibility due to vari...