BACKGROUND Smoking is the leading, preventable risk factor for premature death and disability in Hungary. The objective of this paper was to assess the social acceptability of and the predictors of holding favourable attitudes toward tobacco control policies among the Hungarian population. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire-based study was carried out among individuals aged 16-70 years...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between social norms and attitudes towards ENDS and hookah and use of these products. METHODS We conducted surveys with hookah and ENDS users who regularly used the Internet and social media and analyzed the primary social media account (e.g. Facebook) of each participant, coding all references to nicotine or tobacco produ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Non-cigarette tobacco marketing is less regulated and may promote cigarette smoking among adolescents. We quantified receptivity to advertising for multiple tobacco products and hypothesized associations with susceptibility to cigarette smoking. METHODS Wave 1 of the nationally representative PATH (Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health) study interviewed 10 751...

lengthy enrichment procedures in earlier studies. The highly sensitive and specific TEA (7) simplifies the quantitative deter mination of nitrosamines, in that these nonvolatile compounds need only be concentrated once prior to separation by HPLC and detection. For an accurate measurement of these nitrosamines in chew ing tobacco, tobacco leaves, and unaged smoke, extraction procedures as well ...

OBJECTIVE Raising the price of tobacco products is considered one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use. In addition to excise taxes, governments are exploring other policies to raise tobacco prices and minimise price dispersion, both within and across price tiers. We conducted a systematic review to determine how these policies are described, recommended and evaluated in the literat...

OBJECTIVES Validated metrics of tobacco dependence exist, but their value for global surveillance of tobacco dependence and development of tobacco control interventions is not well understood. This paper reviews tobacco dependence metrics for non-cigarette products, and whether measures of tobacco dependence have been validated in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC). DATA SOURCES Se...